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TCP utilities

This archive contains various helper functions for both servers and clients (take a look at the header for details). You are welcome to use it in your assignments, but first make sure you understand what happens in there. In other words, keep it someplace and refer to it once you are presented with new TCP-related concepts; the archive may contain examples of use for these concepts. You are not expected to understand all the code at once, concepts shall be introduced as the course progresses.

TCP clients

This archive contains the various functions for TCP clients you have seen already (tcp-utils.h and tcp-utils.cc), and code for a simple client that does roughly the same thing as the parameterized telnet client (client.cc).

TCP servers

You have seen a client, so we now have a server in this archive for a change. Besides the known tcp-utils module (tcp-utils.h and tcp-utils.cc), the archive contains a simple server, which receives lines of text from clients and send them back prefixed by a string. There are in fact three implementations of this server, produced by the following targets in the associated makefile (the default target makes them all):

• iserv is the iterative variant (listens by default on port 9000)
• ciserv is still iterative in nature, but simulates concurrency in its sole thread of execution (listens by default on port 9002)
• cserv is the fully concurrent version (listens by default on port 9001)

Multithreaded servers

Our server collection got two more servers: a multithreaded one (tserv.cc) and another which features a monitor thread (mtserv.cc). The implementation of the monitor is for all practical purposes identical to the one presented in Section 12.8 of the textbook. These two new servers are here.

Concurrency management

This archive contains yet another addition to our family of servers. Specifically, you have now a multithreaded server with a control socket opened to local machine only (mctserv which is also a multiservice server if you think about it), a multithreaded server that uses preallocation (mtpserv), and a multiprocess server that also uses preallocation (cpserv).

Servers, servers everywhere

We have here the whole collection of servers. In addition to what you have seen already, a sort of super server has been added (see the included README for details).