IN C LANGUAGE

Socket Labwork

You are required to write a server-client network system that will implement producer-consumer problem.

Here are some directions to follow:

1) You are required to create a server program , producer clients program and consumer clients program.

2) Your server will listen clients at port 1500 and accept the consumers and producers.

3) If a client will be a consumer, your server will create a consumer thread and start to interact

with this client using this thread.

4) If a client will be a producer, your server will create a producer thread and start to interact

with this client using this thread.

5) Here the consumer thread will implement the consumer routine and producer thread will

implement the producer routine infinitely. The server will supply a fixed size buffer for the

operation. The size of the buffer is going to be entered as a console argument.

6) Threads created by the server will be synchoronized by POSIX semaphores.

7) After a thread will do consume or produce operation, it will send the status of the buffer to

the client which it interacts with.

8) Producer clients program will want number of producers as a console argument. Then, this

program will fork producer client processes.

9) Consumer clients program will want the number of consumers as a console argument. Then,

this program will fork producer client processes.

10) Every client process will connect to the port 1500 and the local machine address 127.0.0.1.

Each process must specify its type (i.e. producer or consumer) and send it as a message to the server machine. These processes are going to wait buffer status messages from the server machine.