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process^2 comparison table

Subject	continue	know	initialize	locate on	accept	be	access	do concurrently	send	initiate	connect with	terminate	react to	access by	respond to	stop	has definition	try again	operate with	keep	listen for	handle	disconnect	see also
client^2		the network address of the server	itself so it is able to communicate with the server	the same computer as its server or on a different computer		a server at the same time	many servers to perform different functions	Waiting for interactions with the end-user, and responding when interactions occur Waiting for messages coming from the server, and responding when messages arrive	messages to the server to request services	a connection to a server	a server unless the server is listening	cleanly including includes disconnecting from a server if it is still connected	messages coming from the server				A program or process that connects to another program or process, using a communication channel, in order to request a service	to connect to the server if the server does not initially respond				the disconnection of the server, because the server crashed or the network failed or because either the client or server requested disconnection		client^2
server	to serve currently connected clients after it has stopped listening		itself so that it is able to provide the required service	the same computer as its clients or on a different computer	new client connections if it has stopped listening	a client at the same time		Waiting for interactions with the user who is in charge of the server, and responding as necessary Waiting for clients to try to connect and establishing connections as needed For each connected client, waiting for messages coming from that client, and responding when messages arrive				when necessary, which involves such actions as notifying each client before terminating its connection	messages from connected clients: performing computations or obtaining information, and normally sending some information back to the requesting client and perhaps sending a message to another client or broadcasting messages to many clients at once.	many clients simultaneously	messages from all the connected clients	listening if the number of connected clients becomes too high, or prior to shutting down	A program or process that, in response to requests from clients, provides some kind of service		at least two concurrent threads, and in general n+2, threads where n is the number of connected clients	a record of the connection while a client is connected	clients attempting to connect	connections from many clients	clients - the client may request disconnection by sending a message to the server, the client may just disappear suddenly due to the client crashing or the network connecting going down, or the server may force a client to disconnect if the client is not behaving well	process

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