shengkui/uds

An Unix Domain Socket sample code

A Unix domain socket example

Author: Shengkui Leng

E-mail: [email protected]

Description

This project is a demo for how to use Unix domain socket(Local socket) to communicate between client and server. And the server supports multiple clients via multi-threading.

NOTES: There is no message boundaries in Unix domain socket with "SOCK_STREAM" type. Since Linux kernel v2.6.4, it supports "SOCK_SEQPACKET", a connection-oriented socket that preserves message boundaries and delivers messages in the order that they were sent. Try "man unix" for more info about it.

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Build

(1) Open a terminal.

(2) chdir to the source code directory.

(3) Run "make"

Run

(1) Start the server:

$ ./server

(2) Start the client to send request to server:

$ ./client