chating with socket
 

Hi ,all

These days i have read some books about linux socket programming, and I have write a program that can provide a server and a clint to chating by socket.
And now ,I want to write a program. there is one server and several client can connnect to the server. the number of client is limited , the maximum client number and the port can be set in a .ini file.

when the Server is starting ,i can use the client to connect to the server ,and if there is anybody connected the server ,too. I can use some commands (may be 'list') to know how many and who are connecting to the server. then i can use another command (may be 'chat' ) to chat with the very client.

I think it is just like some chating room based on WEB, but it not use the GUI.

NOw I am doing some high level design. So can you give me some suggestion about it, any thing you say is helpful!

Thank you!

In order to have multiple clients, you'll probably want to use non-blocking I/O and/or threads. I would use non-blocking I/O to avoid having to deal with IPC, myself.