Purely for educational purposes.

In no particular order here are the things I'm trying to learn:

• Heap memory allocation
• Data Structures. In particular:
  • Linked Lists
  • Dynamic Arrays
  • Hash functions
  • Trees
  • Graph data structures
• Networking at the TCP/IP layer
• I/O, including special files
• Managing larger C codebases with make and friends
• Writing and using C libraries
• Debugging with tools like valgrind and gdb
• Programming with OS threads + processes

$ cd boba/src
$ make

Run make clean before commiting anything.

To run on port 4567, in one terminal:

$ ./boba-server 4567
Listening for connections on port 4567...

in another:

$ ./boba-client 127.0.0.1 4567
Connected to 127.0.0.1 on port 4567...

You should see the following output in the server:

Accepting inbound TCP connection

For now the client just sends messages and the server outputs the message.

Client:

> hello, world!

Server:

Read data (13 bytes): hello, world!

To exit the client:

> exit

• Create an echo command that just sends back whatever data the client sent
• Start parsing messages into commands for the server
• Implement a hash table that the client can add and remove objects from
• Write more stuff to do