[saga-rg] Re: Meeting Notes: Messaging API

[Andrei Hutanu]

Andre,

Thanks for the notes!

>    
>  - read: two step mechanism:
>    (int   handle, int size) = query_size ();
>    (char* buffer)           = read (handle, size);
>
>    - handle can be zero, if size is known (one step read)
>    - buffer needs to be allocated by application.  
>    - if size is zero, the buffer is allocated by the
>      implementation and returned to be freed by the
>      application (one step read)
>  
>
This part is a bit confusing .. with the one step read you lose the 
length of the message?
it should probably be  (char* buffer, int size) = read () for the one 
step read ..Or am I reading it wrong..

Andrei