twisted.python.sendmsg.recvmsg(socket, maxSize=8192, cmsgSize=4096, flags=0) function documentationtwisted.python.sendmsg
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Recieve a message on a socket.
| Parameters | socket | The socket to recieve the message on. (type: socket.socket) |
| maxSize | The maximum number of bytes to receive from the socket using the datagram
or stream mechanism. The default maximum is 8192. (type: int) | |
| cmsgSize | The maximum number of bytes to receive from the socket outside of the
normal datagram or stream mechanism. The default maximum is 4096. (type: int) | |
| flags | Flags to affect how the message is sent. See the MSG_
constants in the sendmsg(2) manual page. By default no flags are set. (type: int) | |
| Returns | A named 3-tuple of the bytes recieved using the datagram/stream mechanism,
a list
of tuples
giving ancillary recieved data, and flags as an int
describing the data recieved. | |