42cursus - minitalk

Project Information

About

The purpose of this project is to code a small data exchange program using UNIX signals.

Mandatory

• Produce server & client executables
• client must communicate a string passed as a parameter to server (referenced by its process ID) which then displays it
• Use SIGUSR1 & SIGUSR2 signals ONLY

Bonus

• Add reception acknowledgement system
• Support Unicode characters

Allowed Functions

• malloc
• free
• write
• getpid
• signal
• sigemptyset & sigaddset
• sigaction
• pause
• kill
• sleep
• usleep
• exit

Compilation

1. Clone repo including libft submodule via git clone --recursive https://github.com/hanshazairi/42-minitalk.git.
2. Compile files into server & client executables via make -C 42-minitalk.