PPT Slide
Client-Server IPC pattern
- Another difference - servers are usually always running, waiting for requests; clients “get in and get out”.
- Usually servers provide multiple services and are written to handle such; Figure 7.14 is an example of a file server’s algorithm.
Multiple Servers/Client & Database Access/Update: (Individually review 7.11 & 7.12).
- One interesting tidbit: readers & writers problem.
- Can have parallel readers but only one writer accessing database at at time.