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example code: socket server and client using select()

I spent the last hour re-familiarizing myself with Unix sockets via man-pages and HOWTOs. I have written client/server socket apps a dozen times before but because of iterative development I no longer had a simple example lying around.

To save myself this trouble in the future I created a little socket client and server for future reference. This app allows you to have a Twitter style conversation (140 char limit) with everyone on your system who has permissions to the Unix socket! Perhaps the Unix shell is the next micro-blogging platform. ;)



This entry was written by Brandon Philips and posted on 8/30/2008 at 2:19 am and filed under general. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. Kees Cook
    Posted 8/30/2008 at 9:23 am | Permalink

    Quick note: it is technically possible for send() to not send all of “len”, and the return value should be tested more closely to send any left-over bytes.

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