shalfbea/Minitalk

School 21 project

Minitalk

About

This project is part of program in School 21 (Ecole 42). The purpose of this project is to code a small data exchange program using UNIX signals.

Requirements

• GNU GCC
• GNU Make

Installation and usage

1. Download/Clone this repo

   git clone https://github.com/shalfbea/Minitalk

2. Get into the root directory of project and run make command

   cd Minitalk make

3. Now you can run ./server in first terminal session and ./client in an other Example:

Note: Client will notify for every signal received by server

Technical task

The full task can be found here: minitalk_subject

Quick summary:

• Only using c language is allowed
• Code-style should respect the The Norm
• No memory leaks, segmentation faults, undefined behavior
• Only allowed functions: write, sigemptyset, sigaddset, sigaction , getpid, kill, malloc, free, pause, sleep, usleep, exit
• Can also use libft (own implementation of part of the library functions) and ft_printf (own implementation of printf function)

Bonus (enabled by default)

• The server acknowledges every message received by sending back a signal to the client.
• Unicode characters support

Evaluation result: