ronanboiteau / Minitalk

{EPITECH.} A client/server chat that sends data using UNIX signals.

Minitalk

{EPITECH.} first year project.

This project consists of:

• A server that receives data in binary format
• A client that takes a string as argument, translates it to binary & sends it to the server

The data is sent from the client to the server using UNIX signals SIGUSR1 & SIGUSR2.

Requirements

• A Linux distribution
• Make
• GCC

Compilation

Navigate to the root of the repository from your Terminal and run make to build the ./server/server & ./client/client executable files.

You can run make client to compile the client only, or make server to compile the server only.

How to use Minitalk?

• Compile the 2 executable files (see Compilation above).
• Run the server inside the server/ directory:

./server/server

• The server outputs its PID, note it down: the client needs it to connect to the server.
• Send messages to the server using the client under the client/ directory:

./client/client [SERVER PID] [MESSAGE]