ElHuaco/examRank06

Write a program that will listen for client to connect on a certain port on 127.0.0.1 and will let clients to speak with each other.

A more elegant way to examRank06

Allowed Functions:

• write, close, select, socket, accept, listen, send, recv, bind
• malloc, realloc, free, calloc, bzero, memset
• atoi, sprintf, strlen, strcpy, strcat, strstr
• exit

Optimizations

1. recv() with relatively small buffer size, then add to cache if no newline was found, this way you don't need a huge buffer.
2. Iterate only once through every char in the cache and received buffers, so that huge lines or files with huge amounts of \n don't bite you.
3. Client list struct to avoid looping over unused file descriptors, or using global variables for id, or caches.
4. No need to rewind the list every time.

Results

It's able to send quite quickly, to several clients, the infamous files for the GNL exam: those of ~5MB and 100K lines, and 12 lines of ~100KB each.