This is the first project in System-Programming. Through this project we learned about pipes, named pipes, signal handling, low-level I/O and process intercommunication.
🔨 Download the files locally and run:
$ make
$ ./sniffer -p path
The path is the relative path of the directory you want to monitor about any file changes.
🔩 The programm uses inotifywait() to monitor a given folder about new created files or moved_into files. When the programm gets notified about a new file the manager sends signal to a forked worker to process that file. The worker searches the file about any links that start with http://. After the process he makes a .out file with all the links he found and each link accompanied with the number it appears in the file. The manager communicates with each worker about the through a named pipe (aka FIFO). Each worker after he is done with his job he sends a STOP signal to himself so he can run again later and does not exit. The worker pool is also a FIFO queue implemented by me. The programm terminates with CTRL+C (SIGINT).
