Socket.receiveFrom

Receive data (up to size bytes) from a socket.

If address is non-NULL then address will be set equal to the source address of the received packet. address is owned by the caller.

See Socket.receive for additional information.

class Socket

ptrdiff_t

receiveFrom

(

out SocketAddress address

,

ref char[] buffer

,

Cancellable cancellable

)

Parameters

address SocketAddress: a pointer to a gio.SocketAddress pointer, or NULL
buffer char[]: a buffer to read data into (which should be at least size bytes long).
cancellable Cancellable: a GCancellable or NULL

Return Value

Type: ptrdiff_t

Number of bytes read, or 0 if the connection was closed by the peer, or -1 on error

Throws

GException on failure.

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Since

2.22