Module 06: Server Architecture

Reading Assignment

Rhodes and Goerzen, chapter 7

I'm deeply disappointed with this chapter, because it has far less depth than the two chapters in the previous edition on forking and threading. There is very little coverage of threads and processes, and what there is seems to blur the distinction between them, which seems dangerous. There is almost no coverage of coordinating threads.

Contents

• Forking
  • Discussion
• Threading
  • Object-Oriented Threading (optional, object-oriented versions of the examples)
  • Discussion
• Asynchronous communication
• Lab 3: Concurrent server

Python Library References

• 15.1 os module
• 15.2 io module explains file methods such as seek and truncate
• 16.2 threading module
• 16.3 multiprocessing module