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System Programming in Linux
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System Programming in Linux

by Stewart N. Weiss
October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
1048 pages
29h 35m
English
No Starch Press
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14CLIENT-SERVER APPLICATIONS AND DAEMONS

Chapter opening image from the book’s cover; shows a sunflower.

In this chapter, we’ll examine how to create client-server applications. To design a client-server application, we have to design both the client and the server and make sure that they work together.

A client-server application consists of two types of processes:

  • A server process, which receives requests from other processes to provide some type of service. It performs the specific service and sends back a response to the other process.
  • A client process, which issues service requests to a server by sending it a message and then receiving its response.

Clients typically interact with a user, whereas ...

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