[Qt-interest] Socket communication without threads

[Sean Harmer]

On Monday 02 March 2009 17:27:04 Predrag Manojlovic wrote:
> Hm... let me explain problem on better example:
>
> Let me take Fortune Server as example (without threads):
> And let replace fortune string with much larger data like file content.
> If i start multiple clients, what will happen?
> 1. All downloading at same time?
> 2. One is downloading, other are waiting?
>
> I thought that only one client is downloading data...
>From the docs for QIODevice from which QTcpSocket is derived:

"Certain subclasses of QIODevice, such as QTcpSocket and QProcess, are 
asynchronous. This means that I/O functions such as write() or read() always 
return immediately, while communication with the device itself may happen when 
control goes back to the event loop."

Does that explain it?

Sean