RacleRay/IPC-box

Inter-Process Communication in C.

IPC box

• shm (shm condition variables)
• pipe
• fifo
• mmap
• semaphore (shm with semaphore)
• mq
• socket local
• socket
• eventfd

Usage

cmake -B build

cmake --build build

You can run the executable programs which are at build/src/xxx directories.

Practice

• shm_chat: is a local multi-user chatroom based on shm and mmap.

# server compiled and run in the build directory.
./server

# client compiled and run in the build directory.
./client [client_id](1-100) [user_name]

Features:

1. Mapped share memory
2. Ring buffer messages
3. Non-canonical input mode. Peer`s inputs will never interrupt current user typed input
4. Whisper supported
5. Active user inquiry supported
6. Graceful quit

client 1

client 2

client 3

server