libipc ver. 0.0.8

Simple lightweight and productive zero-copy IPC library. Written on pure C, based on Unix Named Pipes and Unix Domain Sockets. Library is intended to exchange text messages and structures/objects between processes

Transport

Unix Named pipes: One-to-many unidirectional channel. Server side creates a channel and could receive messages from multiple clients through it. Other side connects to a channel and send messages. You also able to create object channel that allow you to send/receive structures and other objects
Unix Domain Sockets: One-to-one biderectional channel. Server process requests from one client at a time.

Features

Fast: 10K messages (~250K of data) written for 0.009s on i5-4250U CPU
Lite: 12k .so size
Zero-copy: No overhead over Unix transport, no memcpy() / strcpy() performed for your provided object / message buffer
No messages are dropped on overflow: if you receive a success from ipc_write_message() you guaranteed that consumer could receive the message by ipc_read_message()

Configure as shared library:

cmake .

Configure as static library:

cmake . -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF

Configure with debug info:

cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

Compile library:

cmake --build .

Compile library and samples:

cmake --build . --target samples

Run client/server samples:

./sample-server &
./sample-client

Run hello sample

./sample-hello

Limitations

Communication within single machine only
Maximum number of channels - 128
Maximum not consumed data could remain in a channel - 64Kb (if you try to produce more messages, but 64k is not consumed, ipc_write_message() will return an error)
Multi-thread - ipc_create_channel(), ipc_connect_channel() and ipc_close_channel() must be protected by mutexes

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