Re: [Libevent-users] evbuffer - how to read without draining data?

[Sebastian Sjöberg <Sebastian.Sjoberg@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Jarod Liu wrote:

> Hi,
> I writing a eventbuffer socket app. My app packet have a length
> header, I want to read data only when input buffer length > packet
> length(I need to read the length header first). But it seems like I
> can't read from evbuffer without draining data. Is there a way to do
> that?

Hi,

You can do evbuffer_pullup() with the size of your length header and reading the length header from the returned pointer.

Best regards,
Sebastian Sjöberg


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