Thank you Grant and William. I wasn't aware of python programming and now that I have looked some stuff it seems indeed much simpler to implement it with. I'll look into it.
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:04 AM, William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au>wrote: > On 04/02/14 05:51, xarman wrote: > > > > On 02/03/2014 11:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 03/02/2014 20:15, xarman wrote: > >>> I'm interested in making a TCP Listener in C / C++ on Linux to accept > >>> many connections simultaneously. I did a relative search on the Web and > >>> although I am aware of the C language as to a certain extent, I > >>> struggle to find a model program. Essentially, it is the listener of a > >>> server that receives a signal and stores it in a database and do some > >>> other functions. I know how to do the functions but I'm looking for a > >>> way to fix the basic skeleton of listener that will be always active. > >>> I'm not sure if I need multi threading or multi socketing for multi > >>> connections. > >>> If you have any knowledge on the subject or have a simple example or > even > >>> some reference in order to work on that, I'd appreciate it. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> Is this a school homework question? > >> > >> > >> > > No. Why are you asking? > > > > He is asking because its one of the common C/C++ computer science > assignments! > > In practice, perl, python are usually simpler and easier to use. > > and the google-fu needed is to search for a TCP echo server to use as a > staring point. > > BillK > > > >
