Re: [GNUnet-developers] Sending large data

[Christian Grothoff]

On 10/21/19 8:16 PM, Alessio Vanni wrote:
> Alessio Vanni <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I made sure to use a new envelope each time.  In fact, the real
>> implementation is a dedicated function that does some basic checking
>> (e.g. make sure the pointer to the data is not NULL) before sending the
>> message.  I tried calling it both inside a normal for loop and also as
>> "scheduled tasks" using `GNUNET_SCHEDULER_add_now' after each message is
>> sent (of course tasks were added only if there were more segments), but
>> to no avail: the service gets only the first segment.
> 
> I found the culprit on why only the first message is received... the
> client code had become a bit entangled and I lost the fact that the
> program is set to terminate once data is sent.  Naturally doing this
> impedes the sending of the remaining messages.
> 
> Is there a way to make the program terminate once all the messages are
> received?  I'm sure a simple solution would be to receive a message from
> the service, but since the service-to-client message queue is created
> within the API which is a separate library, is it safe to call
> `GNUNET_SCHEDULER_shutdown_now' from there?

The function is GNUNET_SCHEDULER_shutdown(), and yes, it's always safe
to call that one.

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