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Unix Socket Programming Interview Questions

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Is there any advantage to handling the signal, rather than just ignoring it and checking for the EPIPE error? Are there any useful parameters passed to the signal catching function?

1367

How do I send [this] over a socket?

1 2151

How come select says there is data, but read returns zero?

1 1986

How can I force a socket to send the data in its buffer?

1562

What are the pros/cons of select(), non-blocking I/O and SIGIO?

1313

Why does it take so long to detect that the peer died?

1457

Why do I get EPROTO from read()?

1402

Where can a get a library for programming sockets?

1 2059

Whats the difference between select() and poll()?

1584

How do I use TCP_NODELAY?

1501

What is the difference between read() and recv()?

1908

After the chroot(), calls to socket() are failing. Why?

1 2104

When will my application receive SIGPIPE?

1 2208

How can I find the full hostname (FQDN) of the system I am running on?

1 2468

How can my client work through a firewall/proxy server?

1 2538

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Un-Answered Questions { Unix Socket Programming }

What's the difference between a socket and a port?

800

What is a socket address?

871

How can I set the timeout for the connect() system call?

1464

How can I write a multi-homed server?

1597

Can multiple clients connect to same socket?

851

Can a socket have multiple ports?

819

What exactly is a socket?

880

What is a deep well socket?

874

What is a socket file?

838

Why does the sockets buffer fill up sooner than expected?

1290

Why do we need socket programming?

815

Are unix sockets faster than tcp?

809

How is a socket created?

864

What is the purpose of socket?

853

What is sae socket?

780

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