On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:11:13AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My question is :
>
> Suppose a server is listening to 5 clients, and it has to send a
> message to all the clients, how does the server achieve this task?
A server typically consists of 2 programs: one that listens for
incoming connections, and one that services the connection (that
latter one can be a thread rather then full-weight process). In your
scenario there will be one "master" program and 5 "server"
programs/threads. So, the "master" program would send a
signal/message/whatever to 5 "server" threads, and they would each
forward the message to their clients.
This is one way of doing it.
Dima
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