Table of Contents
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Asynchronous programming 40
The need for going asynchronous 40
Asynchronous run(), run_one(), poll(), poll_one() 44
Running forever 44
The run_one(), poll(), poll_one() functions 45
Asynchronous work 47
Asynchronous post() versus dispatch() versus wrap() 50
Staying alive 52
Summary 55
Chapter 3: Echo Server/Clients 57
TCP Echo server/clients 58
TCP synchronous client 59
TCP synchronous server 60
TCP asynchronous client 61
TCP asynchronous server 64
The code 66
UDP Echo server/clients 66
UDP synchronous Echo client 67
UDP synchronous Echo server 68
Summary 68
Chapter 4: Client and Server 69
The synchronous client/server 70
Synchronous client 70
Synchronous server 73
The asynchronous client/server 77
Asynchronous client 78
Asynchronous server 82
Summary 86
Chapter 5: Synchronous Versus Asynchronous 87
Mixing synchronous and asynchronous programming 87
Passing client to server messages and vice versa 88
Synchronous I/O in client applications 89
Synchronous I/O in server applications 92
Threading in a synchronous server 94
Asynchronous I/O in client applications 96
Asynchronous I/O in server applications 98
Threading in an asynchronous server 101
Asynchronous operations 104
Implementing proxies 108
Summary 111
