minitalk (42Porto - 42Cursus)

Grade: 125/100

Showcase

Description

2 programs, server and client that use the UNIX signals SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 to exchange binary-encoded messsages - Introduction to Inter Process Communication (IPC).

Installing and running the project

1- Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/Kuninoto/42_minitalk

2- Run make

make

3- make clean so that you don’t keep those object files that you won’t need anymore

make clean

4- Run server, copy its PID and run client with it alongside the message you wish to send.

./server
./client <server_PID> <message>

Makefile available targets

make or make all - Makes server and client
make clean - Deletes all the resulting object files
make fclean - Deletes the executables and all the resulting object files
make re - fclean + all
make bonus - same as all, added for assignment purposes

Useful links:

Sending and Handling Signals in C (kill, signal, sigaction)
Bitwise operators in C

Disclaimer

At 42School, almost every project must be written in accordance to the “Norm”, the schools’ coding standard. As a result, the implementation of certain parts may appear strange and for sure had room for improvement.

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Made by Nuno Carvalho (Kuninoto) | [email protected]