Questions tagged [sockets]
a data structure that provides access to inter-process communication. For the past 40 years, this basically means network communication.
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Thread lifecycle management and resource cleanup when the server shuts down
context : The developed server adopts a multi-threaded architecture for client management, where each connection is assigned to a dedicated thread configured in detached mode via pthread_detach. This ...
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Should I introduce a controller layer to separate networking from game/player logic in a C server project?
I’m writing a multiplayer server in C using sockets and pthreads.
The project is separated by responsibility:
server.c/.h → networking (socket, bind, listen, accept, thread creation)
player.c/.h → ...
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Linux poll with a thread pool and multiple events
I am working on a simple client server program in C in which multiple clients will be connected to a single server.
Clients will submit operations/actions to the server and the server will process ...
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Is it more secure to develop libraries in-house than using existing libraries? [closed]
I (unfortunately) work in a large German corporation, in a department where the codebase is up to 20 years old, written in C++ (actually more like C with the occasional classes, since most developers ...
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Socket Class Design C++
I am currently trying to design some C++ classes that encapsulate POSIX sockets and their relevant functions. I want to try and design classes that are simple, elegant, and make the best use of design ...
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How inter-process communication is handled on .NET Core?
I have to implement a bi-directional communication between two local process with support to backward compatibility .NET Core/NET Framework and platform architecture x86/x64.
The options that i have ...
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Deployment of two programs that communicate between them
On windows, I have done one client in c++ and one server in python. In order to make the program work, I need first to run the server (in one terminal), and then I can run the client.
I am trying to ...
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What are the possible *root causes* of a SocketTimeoutException?
I understand that a SocketTimeoutException (I'm in Java, but I guess it's the same in just about every major language) happens after a server or client doesn't respond after a period of time, let say ...
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How best to structure this MVC or Razor Pages web application given a required tcp/ip server data source that acts like a web api?
I am rewriting an old asp.net 4.0 web forms website that exposes an application's data and logic to the web. I am moving this to a .net core mvc or razor page project. The website has minimal ...
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Is there a conventional URI scheme for local sockets (AF_UNIX)?
I'm looking at creating a class which accepts a string to define a Unix socket address.
Linux supports three types of addresses for Unix sockets:
File based addresses (also called named domain ...
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Asynchronous Server in C++
We are looking to develop an asynchronous server in C++. We are coming from C#, which has built-in support for async-await networking. However, with C++ it appears as if it is basically mandatory to ...
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How should I handle dealing with a stream of incoming data?
I'm creating a NodeJS application that receives a ton of incoming financial data (prices) through Websockets, like anywhere from 1 to 5 data points per second which I would then like to send to the ...
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What are services and interfaces of a layer in a computer network model? [closed]
In Tanenbaum's Computer Networks book
Three concepts are central to the OSI model:
Services.
Interfaces.
Protocols.
Probably the biggest contribution of the OSI model is that it makes
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How to check whether module or class is network interface, socket?
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Simplifying, assume I want to write some tool for code-analysis, which tell me which files - class/module - are/have some kind of network interface(s). No matter if it's REST Controller, ...
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How do browsers isolate traffic within a single tab?
I know that browsers use a separate port for each tab. However, in each tab, there might be multiple scripts doing data transfer over the network. How does a browser makes sure that the data is ...
