Cantor IV

Q3: what can go wrong during a write to a socket???
Q3b: if buffer is full, will the writing thread block???
%A: by default it blocks, but it’s probably possible to configure it to return an error code or even thrown an exception

Q: blocking vs non-blocking socket???

Q: socket programming – what’s a select ?

Q: what’s the implementation of the std::map?
%A: tree, probably red-black

Q: Should base class dtor always be virtual?
A: deleting a derived object via a base pointer results in undefined behavior.

Q: how many ways to share data between 2 processes? How about shared memory

Q: synchronize 2 unix processes accessing a shared file?
A: named semaphore