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NN_RECV(3)			  nanomsg 1.1.5 		      NN_RECV(3)

NAME
     nn_recv - receive a message

SYNOPSIS
     #include <nanomsg/nn.h>

     int nn_recv (int s, void *buf, size_t len, int flags);

DESCRIPTION
     Receive  a  message from the socket s and store it in the buffer referenced
     by the buf argument. Any bytes exceeding the length specified  by	the  len
     argument will be truncated.

     Alternatively,  nanomsg  can allocate the buffer for you. To do so, let the
     buf parameter be a pointer to a void* variable (pointer to pointer) to  the
     receive buffer and set the len parameter to NN_MSG. If the call is success-
     ful  the  user  is  responsible  for  deallocating  the  message  using the
     nn_freemsg(3) function.

     The flags argument is a combination of the flags defined below:

     NN_DONTWAIT
	 Specifies that the operation should be performed in non-blocking  mode.
	 If the message cannot be received straight away, the function will fail
	 with errno set to EAGAIN.

RETURN VALUE
     If the function succeeds number of bytes in the message is returned. Other-
     wise,  -1	is returned and errno is set to to one of the values defined be-
     low.

ERRORS
     EBADF
	 The provided socket is invalid.

     ENOTSUP
	 The operation is not supported by this socket type.

     EFSM
	 The operation cannot be performed on this socket at the moment  because
	 socket  is  not  in  the  appropriate	state. This error may occur with
	 socket types that switch between several states.

     EAGAIN
	 Non-blocking mode was requested and there's no message  to  receive  at
	 the moment.

     EINTR
	 The  operation  was interrupted by delivery of a signal before the mes-
	 sage was received.

     ETIMEDOUT
	 Individual socket types may define their own specific timeouts. If such
	 timeout is hit this error will be returned.

     ETERM
	 The library is terminating.

EXAMPLES
     Receiving a message into a buffer allocated by the user
	 This example code will retrieve a message of either 100 bytes or  less.
	 If a larger message was sent it will be truncated to 100 bytes.

	 char buf [100];
	 nbytes = nn_recv (s, buf, sizeof (buf), 0);

     Receiving a message into a buffer allocated by nanomsg
	 The  following will get a message from the pipe with a buffer allocated
	 by the system. It is large enough to accommodate  the	entire	message.
	 This  is a good way to get the entire message without truncating if the
	 size of the message is unknown. It is the user's responsibility to call
	 nn_freemsg(3) after processing the message.

	 void *buf = NULL;
	 nbytes = nn_recv (s, &buf, NN_MSG, 0);

	 if (nbytes < 0) {
	     /* handle error */
	     ...
	 }
	 else {
	     /* process message */
	     ...
	     nn_freemsg (buf);
	 }

     Note that this can be more efficient  than  manually  allocating  a  buffer
     since it is a zero-copy operation.

SEE ALSO
     nn_send(3) nn_recvmsg(3) nn_socket(3) nanomsg(7)

AUTHORS
     Martin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm.com>

				   2018-10-15			      NN_RECV(3)

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