What is the correct way of reading from a TCP socket in C/C++?

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Answer 1

Just to add to things from several of the posts above:

read() -- at least on my system -- returns ssize_t. This is like size_t, except is signed. On my system, it's a long, not an int. You might get compiler warnings if you use int, depending on your system, your compiler, and what warnings you have turned on.