There are three computers connected by a network. One of them is a server and the other two are clients. The server has some files, each with a different name. The full name of each file consists of two parts, a name and an extension. Both clients know the full names of all of the files stored on the server. From among its files, the server chooses a single file and sends the name part of that file's full name to one of the clients and the extension part of the full name to the other client.
The clients then begin communicating in an effort to determine which file was selected by the server (they want to learn the file's full name). However, the clients have to communicate in a very restricted manner. Clients take turns sending messages to each other, but they can only say when they don't know the full name of the file. If one client does not know the full name of the chosen file, that client may send a message saying "I don't know the full file name" to the other client. The two clients alternate, sending only this message back and forth. This continues until either one of the clients knows the full file name or they decide to quit. The client that received the name part of the full file name always waits for the other client to send the first message.
Pretend that you know all the full file names that reside on the server (both the name and the extension part) and you are listening to the conversation between the clients. Based on this conversation, you should determine the set of files that might have been chosen by the server. Files in this set are called candidate files.