Linux-IPC

This is a collection of mini-projects I did while learning Linux inter-process communication (IPC).

Resources used

• "Linux Inter Process Communication (IPC) from Scratch" course on Udemy by Abhishek Sagar
• The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk

Structure

This repo contains several projects (each of them has a README providing more information), organized as follows:

• posix_message_queues -- IPC via POSIX message queues (the server process receives integers sent by the client process)

• posix_shared_memory -- IPC via POSIX shared memory (the reader processes receive integers sent by the writer process)

• routing_table_manager -- IPC via UNIX domain sockets, signals, and shared memory (the server process maintains a routing table that is synchronized across all clients)

• unix_domain_sockets -- IPC via stream-based UNIX domain sockets (the server process computes sums of values that are sent out by clients)

Compiling and running the code examples

Binaries can be compiled using cmake and make, as follows:

git clone https://github.com/alexandra-zaharia/Linux-IPC.git 
cd Linux-IPC
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../bin 
make && make install
cd ../bin

From bin, cd into the desired directory and execute the binary files.