WhatsPipe

Developers: Fudayl Çavuş | Mahmut Sacit Meydanal

Used

• Pipes
• Signal and Signal Handling
• Threads
• Exec And Fork
• Child Processes

No external libraries are used

Features

Client

• can change target anytime
• can get notification if target user is offline
• can get notification whenever target goes offline
• can get notification even when the sender is someone else
• can store messages (on memory)
• can track all unread messages
• has custom and responsive design

Server

• can handle multiple clients at a time
• can handle the change of user status
• can trigger client whenever it's needed (by signals)
• can handle duplicate names

Demonstration

How to run on your machine

UNIX BASED OS REQUIRED

Open terminal on cloned folder then do the following steps;

Client-Side Compilation

g++ -I./include -o client src/client.cpp src/screen.cpp src/events.cpp

Server-Side Compilation

g++ -I./include -o server src/server.cpp

then run ./server on one terminal, and ./client on 2 seperate terminals, voila! You are ready to go!

Special Thanks To Muhammet Cinsdikici for his contributions.