> If the client were to execute before the server and fail to connect (the server is not running to accept the connection) then your system has failed, the server will run later and be waiting forever on a client who's already died.
From the article:
> Like before, the order doesn’t matter: the client could begin a connection before the server starts accepting (the OS will buffer the client request in the meantime), or the server could start accepting first and wait for a bit before seeing an incoming connection.
When you create a server socket, you need to call `listen` and after that clients can begin connecting. You don't need to have already called `accept`, as explained in the article.
From the article:
> Like before, the order doesn’t matter: the client could begin a connection before the server starts accepting (the OS will buffer the client request in the meantime), or the server could start accepting first and wait for a bit before seeing an incoming connection.
When you create a server socket, you need to call `listen` and after that clients can begin connecting. You don't need to have already called `accept`, as explained in the article.