Some one please help with simple client

[jbourne]

i have attached the simplest form of client .c but with multiple receives ..,,.
When i try to receive a single string it all works fine ,..,
But when i receive multiple strings using two recv() the program kinda stops responding .,,.
Some one please tell me the poblem and/or the solution ,..,.,.
The simple code is as below ,.., it wont take much time for you to read ,,. Pleese help.,,.

/*
** client.c -- a stream socket client demo
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>

#include <arpa/inet.h>

#define PORT "8189" // the port client will be connecting to 

#define MAXDATASIZE 100 // max number of bytes we can get at once 

// get sockaddr, IPv4 or IPv6:
void *get_in_addr(struct sockaddr *sa)
{
	if (sa->sa_family == AF_INET) {
		return &(((struct sockaddr_in*)sa)->sin_addr);
	}

	return &(((struct sockaddr_in6*)sa)->sin6_addr);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	int sockfd, numbytes;  
	char buf[MAXDATASIZE], input[10];
	struct addrinfo hints, *servinfo, *p;
	int rv;
	char s[INET6_ADDRSTRLEN];

	if (argc != 2) {
	    fprintf(stderr,"usage: client hostname\n");
	    exit(1);
	}

	memset(&hints, 0, sizeof hints);
	hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
	hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;

	if ((rv = getaddrinfo(argv[1], PORT, &hints, &servinfo)) != 0) {
		fprintf(stderr, "getaddrinfo: %s\n", gai_strerror(rv));
		return 1;
	}

	// loop through all the results and connect to the first we can
	for(p = servinfo; p != NULL; p = p->ai_next) {
		if ((sockfd = socket(p->ai_family, p->ai_socktype,
				p->ai_protocol)) == -1) {
			perror("client: socket");
			continue;
		}

		if (connect(sockfd, p->ai_addr, p->ai_addrlen) == -1) {
			close(sockfd);
			perror("client: connect");
			continue;
		}

		break;
	}

	if (p == NULL) {
		fprintf(stderr, "client: failed to connect\n");
		return 2;
	}

	inet_ntop(p->ai_family, get_in_addr((struct sockaddr *)p->ai_addr),
			s, sizeof s);
	printf("client: connecting to %s\n", s);

	freeaddrinfo(servinfo); // all done with this structure
	printf("enter data to send:");
	scanf("%s",&input);

	
	if (send(sockfd,&input, strlen(input)+1 , 1) == -1)
	{
			perror("send");
			exit(1);
	}
	printf("df");
	
	

	if ((numbytes = recv(sockfd, buf, MAXDATASIZE-1, 0)) == -1) {
	    perror("recv");
	    exit(1);
	}
   

	buf[numbytes] = '\0';

	printf("client: received '%s'\n",buf);
	if ((numbytes = recv(sockfd, buf, MAXDATASIZE-1, 0)) == -1) {
	    perror("recv");
	    exit(1);
	}
   

	buf[numbytes] = '\0';

	printf("client: received '%s'\n",buf);
		if ((numbytes = recv(sockfd, buf, MAXDATASIZE-1, 0)) == -1) {
	    perror("recv");
	    exit(1);
	}
   

	buf[numbytes] = '\0';

	printf("client: received '%s'\n",buf);
close(sockfd);


	return 0;
}

[Rubberman]

You are using a blocking recv() call, so it will likely be waiting for more data from the socket. Use the MSG_DONTWAIT flag in the call, and check the return for the number of bytes received. If it is -1, check if errno == EAGAIN, which means that the call would have blocked if you hadn't set the MSG_DONTWAIT flag.