Servers #

Scope #

Basic content #

• Client-server model.
  • Concurrent and iterative server types. Communication type vs server type.
  • Stateful services. Stateful and stateless servers.
• Peer to peer (P2P) models. Pros and coms of P2P as compared to the client-server model.
• Service quality criteria.
• Handling multiple communication channels
  • blocking I/O + threads or sub-processes.
  • Synchronous I/O multiplexing - select(), pselect()

Auxiliary content #

• Non-blocking I/O.
• SIGIO and I/O
• Running servers

Reference #

1. Lecture Slides
2. Code samples
3. Old slides: Inet_3en.pdf
4. The GNU C library documentation: 13.8: Waiting for Input or Output, 16.11: The inet daemon, 18.1 Overview of Syslog, 24.2.4: Asynchronous I/O Signals