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?

1220

How do I send [this] over a socket?

1 1875

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

1 1737

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

1301

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

1140

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

1328

Why do I get EPROTO from read()?

1172

Where can a get a library for programming sockets?

1 1800

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

1415

How do I use TCP_NODELAY?

1281

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

1740

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

1 1850

When will my application receive SIGPIPE?

1 1937

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

1 2130

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

1 2225


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Un-Answered Questions { Unix Socket Programming }

How are unix domain sockets implemented?

659


Is a socket a file?

634


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

1296


What does af mean in sockets?

707


How to find other end of unix socket connection?

691


Why do we need socket programming?

659


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

1140


What is the difference between SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT?

1589


How do I use TCP_NODELAY?

1281


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

1415


Why do I get EPROTO from read()?

1172


What is socket programming in java?

666


What exactly is a socket?

713


How does unix socket work?

684


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

1740