HEllo all,
I need to declare a buffer that stores an incoming text message over the network from a server. The problem is, I dont know the length of this message.
I declare my buffer as char buf[8192] for example.

So right now, I read the message until the buffer gets full, and then write the contents of the buffer to a file and so on. There is an I/O involved everytime the buffer gets full.

What I;d like to do is to have some sort of infinite buffer, that would store all the message. Then I can use just one I/O to write contents of buffer into a file. Is this possible to do? Thanks.

Does your system have infinite memory? If so, yes. If not, there's a (somewhat) obvious limit.

What's wrong with what you've got? Does it not work?

Doesn't the received buffer start with the number of bytes to be read?

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your buffer is one "block" of data on the disk; I'm unsure if it's possible to increase or decrease the block size some how, but you could look into that

thats about all I can help

WaltP ~I think he's just trying to figure out a way to minimize disk accesses, as they take ages in computer time