Would help to actually pass the data read back out

3 files changed, 55 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/libvxi11client/client.c b/libvxi11client/client.c
index 6b4496e..ee5fe47 100644
--- a/libvxi11client/client.c
+++ b/libvxi11client/client.c
@@ -56,9 +56,10 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
 			printf("Error writing data\n");
 
 		// read some bytes
-		int bytesread = vxi11_read(NULL, 0, false, false, 0);
+		char buffer[1024];
+		int bytesread = vxi11_read(buffer, sizeof(buffer), false, false, 0);
 		if (bytesread >= 0)
-			printf("Read %d bytes\n", bytesread);
+			printf("Read %d bytes, %s\n", bytesread, buffer);
 		else
 			printf("Error reading data\n");
 
diff --git a/libvxi11client/libvxi11client.c b/libvxi11client/libvxi11client.c
index 4697775..c58ad3a 100644
--- a/libvxi11client/libvxi11client.c
+++ b/libvxi11client/libvxi11client.c
@@ -215,6 +215,8 @@ int vxi11_read(char* buffer, unsigned int bufferlen, bool waitlock, bool termchr
 #ifdef DEBUG
 		printf("Got \"%s\" from server\n", resp->data.data_val);
 #endif
+		if (buffer != NULL)
+			strncpy(buffer, resp->data.data_val, (bufferlen < resp->data.data_len ? bufferlen : resp->data.data_len));
 		return resp->data.data_len;
 	}
 	else if (resp == NULL)
diff --git a/libvxi11client/perlbits/README b/libvxi11client/perlbits/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a789fc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libvxi11client/perlbits/README
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+VXI11-Client version 0.01
+=========================
+
+This module is a wrapper around a C library that uses libc's built in
+Sun RPC support to talk to VXI11 networked instruments.
+
+It supports only one instrument at a time.
+
+Interrupts work by creating the interrupt channel, enabling interrupts 
+and then using wait_for_interrupt() to wait for an interrupt to happen.
+wait_for_interrupt() blocks until a interrupt happens or a timeout occurs. 
+If an interrupt happens before it is called it returns immediately.
+If multiple interrupts happen before it is called it will return immediately
+until all the fired interrupts are cleared.
+
+Return codes work like this;
+1   - is a success
+0   - means the request failed locally, the state inside the client is
+incorrect, i.e. calling to enable interrupts before creating the channel
+or that the server couldn't be contacted
+< 0 - Any negative value is the negated VXI-11 error code from the server
+
+The only exceptions to this are the read and write methods
+0   - Error as above or zero bytes read/written
+> 0 - Number of bytes read/written
+
+INSTALLATION
+
+To install this module type the following:
+
+   perl Makefile.PL
+   make
+   make test
+   make install
+
+DEPENDENCIES
+
+This module requires these other modules and libraries:
+
+  glib/gthread
+
+COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
+
+Put the correct copyright and licence information here.
+
+Copyright (C) 2013 by daniel
+
+This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.14.2 or,
+at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.