[Spread-users] SP_receive documentation incorrect?

[Ryan Caudy]

The input service_type to SP_receive should be 0 (all flags cleared), or 
DROP_RECV (see short buffer handling documentation), depending on what 
you desire.

--Ryan

Xudong Yan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We are finding that as you call 
> 
> SP_receive(fd, &service_type, sender, num_groups, &num_groups, groups,
> &mess_type, &endian_mismatch, mess_len, mess), 
> 
> the second parameter, &service_type, is used as an input variable as
> well as an output variable.
> 
> 
> So if you call SP_receive() without initializing service_type,
> SP_receive could potentially drop the message.
> 
> The man page for SP_receive does not mention that this variable need to
> be initialized to a specific value. Can someone confirm what exactly 
> the variable should be set to (we now set it to 0)?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Xudong
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Ryan W. Caudy
Center for Networking and Distributed Systems
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University