dhruvs009 / socketchat

Basic Chat Application using UNIX IPCs

This is a basic chat application I made during my Computer Architecture and Operating Systems course written in C using threads and UNIX domain sockets. This app lets you message different clients on the same system and talk to them individually at a time or everyone at once using username tags.

How to run?

1. Clone the repository on your system using git clone https://github.com/dhruvs009/SocketChat.git.
   
2. Navigate to the download directory.
   
3. Run make server to create a server.
   
4. Run make SocketName="socket_address" Username"username user" on a different terminal to create a user. Replace "socket_address" with that displayed by the server and "username with a username of your choice (without the quotes).
   
5. On the user terminals write @username message to send a message to the username as mentioned.
   

Dhruv Sahnan
Computer Architecture and Operating Systems | Monsoon'19
B.Tech CSAM | Batch of 2022
IIIT Delhi