[OpenAFS-devel] rx_FlushWrite

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Tuesday, March 09, 2004 14:29:50 +0100 Soewono Effendi 
<soewono.effendi@sysgo.com> wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> I'm looking for a way to flush rx-Write-Stream, but without closing the
> stream. I can't use rx_FlushWrite, since the stream will be closed.

To what end?

Rx call streams are not fully bidirectional; they are purely 
one-request-one-response.  The caller gets to send as much data as he 
wants, and then the stream is turned around and the server gets to send as 
much data is it wants.  Once the stream has been turned around, there is no 
going back.  This is not a matter of a missing interface; it's the way the 
protocol works.

So just write until you're done, then start reading (or call the End stub). 
As soon as something tries to read data from the stream (either you call 
rx_Read, or the stub does), any pending writes will be flushed and the 
stream will be turned around automatically.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA