Q. 26 A client process P needs to make a TCP connection to a server Process S .
Consider the following situation; the server process S executes a socket (), a
bind() and a listen () system call in that order, following which it is preempted.
Subsequently, the client Process P executes a socket () system call followed by
connect () system call to connect to the server process S . The server process has
not executed any accept() system call. Which one of the following events could
take place?
(A) connect ( ) system call returns successfully
(B) connect ( ) system call blocks
(C) connect ( ) system call returns an error
(D) connect ( ) system call results in a core dump
Answer: (C)
Explanation:
