cli1.c

/*
 * cli1.c -     For ICT374 Topic 8
 *              Hong Xie
 *              Last modified: 16/10/2020
 *      test for UNIX domain stream socket (client part).
 *      This is a very **crude** program.
 */

#include  <unistd.h>
#include  <stdlib.h>
#include  <sys/types.h>
#include  <sys/socket.h>
#include  <sys/un.h>
#include  <string.h>
#include  <stdio.h>
#include  <string.h>

char serversockname[]="serversocket";

int main()
{
     int sd, n;
     char buf[256];
     struct sockaddr_un server_addr;
     char mesg[]="hello, world from client";

     /* create client socket */
     sd = socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

     /* request connection to serversoc */
     server_addr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
     strcpy(server_addr.sun_path, serversockname);
     connect(sd, (struct sockaddr *)&server_addr, sizeof(server_addr));

     /* send request to server */
     write(sd, mesg, strlen(mesg)+1);

     /* read results back from server */
     read(sd, buf, sizeof(buf));
     printf("server echoed '%s'\n", buf);

     exit(0);
}