client server modal basic problem!

[vc185002]

hi, all
i m trying to code Client server model in C++.
Do we need a thread to handle a client means per client a thread is to be generated. Is there any other way so that we can handle more numbers of clients with some limited threads?

[philkr]

You don't need a new thread for each client. But if you use synchronous functions you should create one extra thread for the whole network communication, because otherwise your main thread will be blocked.

[Naumaan]

Further more Winsock offers some interesting I/O models that help applications manage communication on one or more sockets at a time in an asynchronous fashion: select, WSAAsyncSelect, WSAEventSelect, overlapped I/O, and completion port. Search Information regarding these models on Internet and in MSDN it may helps u.