[jcifs] readPacketType() / IO exception

[Wiedenhoeft, Andre]

Hi Michael,

We have a questions regarding readPacketType() from SessionServicePacket.java.

A customer of us gets under heavy usage of jCIFS on HP-UX as a 
jCIFS-client (server is Windows) sometimes the IO exception thrown
by the readPacketType() method. First the customer claimed this to be
an OS error. After adding some additional debug code we found that the
in.read call sometimes returns less then HEADER_LENGTH (4 Bytes). The
recv/read system call specifications indicates that this is not an
error. We think this code should retry to get the missing bytes,
instead of throwing an exception. Can you please comment on this?


Thanks in advance for your reply


André Wiedenhoeft

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