Linux Socket programming help

Hi,

I'm creating a very basic chat program which doesn't use a server as such.

If the application is run with no arguments then it acts a pseudo server. If it has an argument (ip address) then it will connect to that host.

I am fairly ( :) ) sure that the applications are connecting properly but when trying to send and receive messages all I get is either a few question marks or nothing. Often it garbles the display on the client terminal.

once comiled usage is ./msg and ./msg 127.0.0.01

for server and client respectively

Any help would be greatly appreciated.




PS

I know that the whole send - receive timing and such isnt working yet I am trying to get them just to display any received messages first.

Well for starters, your indentation is horrible. Next, main returns an int, so stop with the "implicit int" stuff. Is it that hard to type three characters?

Code:

---

int buffsize=1024; /* Why aren't you using BUFSIZ? */

char *recvd = malloc(buffsize);

char *msg = malloc(buffsize);

...snip...

        //while (1)
        //{
                printf("Client says %s\n", &recvd); /* This is wrong. Lose the address-of. */
                //break;
//        }

...snip...
       
        scanf("%s", &msg); /* This is wrong. address-of isn't for pointers. Just use its name. */

...snip...

int buffsize=1024; /* Why are you declaring another of these? */
int buffsize1=1024;
char *msgn = malloc(buffsize);

char *msg= malloc(buffsize1);

while (1)
{
//scanf("%s", &msg); /* This is wrong. */
msg = "hello world\n\r";
if(send (sock,msg, buffsize1,0)==-1)

...snip...

printf("Server says: %s\n", &msgn); /* This is wrong. Lose the address-of. */

---

That'll do for a start.

Quzah.

Hey thanks, a seems to be working much better. My lecturers never mention that address-of was only for variables that werent pointers.

And yep my indenting sux lol, by the way, are there any user friendly IDE's for Linux, I'm currently using the text editor in RH9 which doesnt have even syntax highlighting.

Thanks again, Mat

I use vim. (Which is aliased by default on my machine as vi.) You can turn on syntax hilighting in it if it isn't on by default. You may not like it, but I do. ;)

Well address-of gives you the address of a variable. Pointers are just variables that store addresses. Everything is passed by value. That means, if you pass a variable X to a function, it takes the value that's stored in X and passes that. When a function takes a pointer as an argument, what actually happens is that it takes the value stored in the pointer (an address) and passes that value to the function.

Therefore, you can fake you're using a pointer by passing the value of a variable's address to a function which would normally want a pointer's value. Remember, the value of a pointer is an address. So, by using the address-of operator, you get a value which is an address. You can take that value and pass it to a function which wants that sort of thing.

Now all of that either helped greatly, or confused the hell out of you. Either way, my work here is done. ;)

Quzah.