Minitalk - UNIX Signal Communication

✨ Description

Minitalk is a small data exchange program that demonstrates communication between a client and a server using UNIX signals (SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2).
The server receives and displays strings sent by the client, with the communication happening exclusively through signals.
This project showcases low-level inter-process communication in a Unix environment.

Key Features

• Client-server architecture using UNIX signals
• Efficient transmission of strings between processes
• Supports multiple consecutive client connections
• Fast performance (100+ characters per second)
• Server acknowledgment signals
• Unicode character support

🛠️ Installation & Compilation

1, Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:mtelek/minitalk.git
cd minitalk

2, Compile the project

make

This will create two executables: server and client.

🚀 Usage

1, First, start the server in one terminal:

./server

The server will display its PID which you'll need for the client.
2, In another terminal, use the client to send messages:

./client [server-pid] "your message here"

3, The server will display received messages in real-time.

🧪 Automated Testing

You can test the project using the Minitalk-Tester by ThibaudM13.
This tester helps verify the functionality and performance of the implementation of the project.

Tester

Server's output