For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training. We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.
Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!
I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here)) |
Sockets, time handling and keyboard interrupt handling in C
A new example from last week's C course - a simple TCP/IP server that processes one connection at a time, taking a user's input into a "giftbox" and returning the donantion made by the previous person. The scenario is that you may be given wonderful gifts by people - but sometimes they're not wonderful for you and you would like to swap them!
It's all too easy when writing a new example to include too much into it so that readers are overwhelmed; I've tried in this case to make sockets simple, whilst at the same time providing something that works practically. The code illustrates:
• a server written in C
• some time handling in C
• how we trap ^C (keyboard interrupts) in C via signals
The code could be extended to provide
• cleaner shutdown
• forking to handle multiple parallel connections
• extension to handle longer user input strings / gift descriptions
• error checking
• additional logging
Program source is [here] - together with sample outputs from running it - on server, with client and the logfile. This is not something that we cover on every C / C++ course as it's specialist interest - but if you come on one of our public C courses and have an interest, I'll cover it after class f (written 2015-03-27, updated 2015-03-29)
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles C211 - C and C based languages - Standard Libraries and other headers [2575] Sharing variables between files of code in C - extern - (2010-01-14) [3148] OpenGL / C / C++ - an example to get you started - (2011-01-26) [3234] Your program - you just provide the filling in the sandwich - (2011-04-08) [3244] C and C++ - preprocess, compile, load, run - what each step is for - (2011-04-12)
Some other Articles
Sorting in Python 3 - and how it differs from Python 2 sortingFour in a Bed - most popular answersNeighbourhood Plan - travel and transport thoughtsMoving from C to C++ - Structured to Object Oriented - a lesson for engineersSockets, time handling and keyboard interrupt handling in CCatching up on a week all in a single post (?)Rail Conference, NottinghamServer program written in Tcl using socketsReading from a URL, and reading Json, from your Tcl scriptUsing Object Oriented Tcl and the Tk toolkit together - real life example
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