Partial Reads

Article:		Networking in Cocoa
Subject:		Partial Reads
Date:		2003-05-17 03:20:56
From:		anonymous2

The "receiveMessage:" method doesn't try to deal with partial reads, it assumes that it will receive a complete message on every read. This may not always be the case and the program needs to be prepared to assemble a complete message from separate chunks of received data.