Hi everyone, i developing a kind of "limited chat room" whereas my machine is the server and in my network pair of clients join to chat. kind of stupid.... But what I want to know is your opinion on how to design the server.
I think that creating a thread for each client is bad practice but on the other side I think that's the best way of making it work. Instead I can create a thread for each room and use select to unblock the server from I/O with the clients.
waitting for your opinion...
A multi-threaded server approach is very common, and is usually easier to implement than a non-blocking server. Obviously, if you plan on having thousands of clients connecting at a time, then spawning a new thread for each one is not a good idea.
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How about polling and non-blocking sockets?
Quzah.
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Originally Posted by quzah
yep, I have read something about that, can you give me some links about polling
thanks
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Quzah.
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