[gnutls-devel] gnutls_record_cork and maximum record size

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 16:04 +0200, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> The documentation for gnutls_record_cork() states:
> 
>   If called gnutls_record_send() will no longer send partial records.
> All queued records will be sent when gnutls_uncork() is called, or when
> the maximum record size is reached.
> 
> As I understand the documentation, it implies that if the session is
> corked by gnutls_record_cork() and the size of the data queued by
> successive calls to gnutls_record_send() reaches the maximum record
> size, then gnutls_record_get_max_size() bytes of data are passed to the
> underlying transport. However, the source code for gnutls_record_send()
> implies that if the session is corked then data is queued until
> gnutls_record_uncork() is called (or GNUTLS_E_MEMORY_ERROR is returned).
> Do I misunderstand the documentation or is there a discrepancy between
> the source code and the documentation?

No you don't misunderstand the documentation, it is wrong. I'll update
it to match the current behavior of the code.

regards,
Nikos