Guess i use select to find whenever one peer fd is ready for some action, as far as i understand sockets whenevrr client sends some packet and read func returns end of file that means that server received a packet from a client, now what about when client send two packrts one after another, does select will return ready for that client to process first packet and after calling select again (and read) will it make the same client filedescriptor ready to receive that second one?

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The definition of recv() and send() are different from the definition of read() and write(), for the very important reason that recv() and send() are implemented to work well with select().

Thus, recv() and send() guarantee that, if select() have previously returned "available," they will make at least some progress (for TCP, this means one byte, for UDP, this means one packet) without blocking. They may of course make more than a single byte of progress, depending on how much buffered data or space is available in the kernel.

For UDP, multiple datagrams will never be "merged" -- one datagram is returned per call. (If you pass in a buffer that is smaller than the datagram, the excess is lost!)

Typically, you use recvfrom() for UDP, so you know who sent the datagram, and you can pass in a buffer that is 65536 bytes in size, which is the maximum possible size for a UDP datagram.