MSG_WAITALL for Sockets

[Jeroen Bollen]

On Tuesday, 19 November 2013 at 23:36:57 UTC, Rob T wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 November 2013 at 18:35:08 UTC, Jeroen Bollen 
> wrote:
>> Is there a way I can call a receive method on a socket with 
>> MSG_WAITALL as a flag? There doesn't seem to be an enum for 
>> that.
>
> module core.sys.posix.sys.socket;
>
>     enum : uint
>     {
>         MSG_CTRUNC      = 0x08,
>         MSG_DONTROUTE   = 0x04,
>         MSG_EOR         = 0x80,
>         MSG_OOB         = 0x01,
>         MSG_PEEK        = 0x02,
>         MSG_TRUNC       = 0x20,
>         MSG_WAITALL     = 0x100
>     }
>
>
> Use SocketFlags to set the flag.
>
> If using Windows, you can set up your own enum, as I don't 
> think one is pre-defined.
>
> --rt

Thanks! I don't really get how this is working though, isn't the 
point of using an enum as a type, preventing any values that's 
not listed in the enum definition?