The Sockets Networking API: UNIX® Network Programming Volume 1, Third Edition

Chapter 30. Client/Server Design Alternatives

Introduction

We have several choices for the type of process control to use when writing a Unix server:

• Our first server, Figure 1.9, was an iterative server, but there are a limited number of scenarios where this is recommended because the server cannot process a pending client until it has completely serviced the current client.

• Figure 5.2 was our first concurrent server and it called fork to spawn a child process for every client. Traditionally, most Unix servers fall into this category.

• In Section 6.8, we developed a different version of our TCP server consisting of a single process using select to handle any number of clients.

• In Figure 26.3, we modified our concurrent server to create one thread per ...