Read from socket: Is it guaranteed to at least get x bytes?

Question

I have a rare bug that seems to occur reading a socket.

It seems, that during reading of data sometimes I get only 1-3 bytes of a data package that is bigger than th

Answer 1

If you are still interested, patterns like this :

# 4 bytes are needed here ......
# read remainder of datagram...

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