The short answer is : this cannot be done with MS-Windows WinSock2,
as I can discovered over the last week of trying.
Glad to have finally found this post, which sheds some light on the issues I've been having, using latest Windows 10 Pro, version 20H2 Build 19042.867 (x86/x86_64) :
On a bound, disconnected UDP socket 'sk' (in Listening / Server mode):
1. Any attempt to use either ioctlsocket(sk, FIONREAD, &n_bytes)
OR WsaIoctl with a shifted FIONREAD argument, though they succeed,
and retern 0, after a call to select() returns > with that
'sk' FD bit set in the read FD set,
and the ioctl call returns 0 (success), and n_bytes is > 0,
causes the socket sk to be in a state where any
subsequent call to recv(), recvfrom(), or ReadFile() returns
SOCKET_ERROR with a WSAGetLastError() of :
10045, Operation Not Supported, or ReadFile
error 87, 'Invalid Parameter'.
Moreover, even worse:
2. Any attempt to use recv or recvfrom with the 'MSG_PEEK' msg_flags
parameter returns -1 and WSAGetLastError returns :
10040 : 'A message sent on a datagram socket was larger than
the internal message buffer or some other network limit,
or the buffer used to receive a datagram into was smaller
than the datagram itself.
' .
Yet for that socket I DID successfully call:
setsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVBUF, bufsz = 4096 , sizeof(bufsz) )
and the UDP packet being received was of only 120 bytes in size.
In short, with modern windows winsock2 ( winsock2.h / Ws2_32.dll) ,
there appears to be absolutely no way to use any documented API
to determine the number of bytes received on a bound UDP socket
before calling recv() / recvfrom() in MSG_WAITALL blocking mode to
actually receive the whole packet.
If you do not call ioctlsocket() or WsaIoctl or
recv{,from}(...,MSG_PEEK,...)
before entering recv{,from}(...,MSG_WAITALL,...) ,
then the recv{,from} succeeds.
I am considering advising clients that they must install and run
a Linux instance with MS Services for Linux under their windows
installation , and developing some
API to communicate with it from Windows, so that reliable
asynchronous UDP communication can be achieved - or does anyone
know of a good open source replacement for WinSock2 ?
I need access to a "C" library TCP+UDP/IP implementation for
modern Windows 10 that conforms to its own documentation,
unlike WinSock2 - does anyone know of one ?