Thank you for the answer. I'll check my code carefully, to determine i get
such answer from the function.
On 23 August 2013 12:58, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Velichko Yuriy wrote:
>
> I tried to read data from file using function libssh2_sftp_read(3).
>>
>> The buffer_maxlen = 8000
>>
>> But the "Number of bytes actually populated into buffer" (the return
>> value of function) is always 2000.
>>
>
> I don't think it is always 2000.
>
> When you ask for data with this function from libssh2, the function will
> split up the request into multiple requests for several pieces and as soon
> as the first data has arrived it returns that. The subsequent data pieces
> can then be returned in the next call to this function, should they have
> arrived then.
>
> This is an optimization to help bite off the worst problems with the
> request/response nature of the SFTP protocol and its small packets. You get
> the first data available faster, and chances are that when you subsequently
> ask for more data it might already have been received.
>
> You should still ask for as much data as possible at once so that libssh2
> will send out requests for all of it, and thus make you get data faster.
> This is especially important if you're on high latency connections.
>
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