Unixsockets

Author:

• Bipul Islam

Unix Socet IPC Implementation

We use socket programming for inter process communications to design a simple console based chat application.

Contents:

• chatserv.c (Contains server code, on execution sets up the server to listen for connections)
• charcli.c (Contains client code, set your server IP in the code it will connect to the server, use 127.0.0.1 to test on localhost)

Usage:

gcc chatserv.c -o serv
gcc chatcli.c -o cli
./serv

(in a new tab)

./cli

Then chat away!

Notes:

It's possible to generalize both server and client by accepting the ip of the machines in command line, or even supply server ip to client in commadline.