Modify the programs so that the server sits in a loop to accept string inputs from users and send them to the client, which then prints out the string.

// server.cpp // g++ -o server server.cpp -lpthread -lrt #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define SHMSZ 27 char SEM_NAME[]= "vik"; int main() { char ch; int shmid; key_t key; char *shm,*s; sem_t *mutex; //name the shared memory segment key = 1000; //create & initialize semaphore mutex = sem_open(SEM_NAME,O_CREAT,0644,1); if(mutex == SEM_FAILED) { perror("unable to create semaphore"); sem_unlink(SEM_NAME); exit(-1); } //create the shared memory segment with this key shmid = shmget(key,SHMSZ,IPC_CREAT|0666); if(shmid<0) { perror("failure in shmget"); exit(-1); } //attach this segment to virtual memory shm = (char*) shmat(shmid,NULL,0); //start writing into memory s = shm; for(ch='A';ch<='Z';ch++) { sem_wait(mutex); *s++ = ch; sem_post(mutex); } //the below loop could be replaced by binary semaphore while(*shm != '*') { sleep(1); } sem_close(mutex); sem_unlink(SEM_NAME); shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, 0); _exit(0); } 

// client.cpp // g++ -o client client.cpp -lpthread -lrt #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define SHMSZ 27 char SEM_NAME[]= "vik"; int main() { char ch; int shmid; key_t key; char *shm,*s; sem_t *mutex; //name the shared memory segment key = 1000; //create & initialize existing semaphore mutex = sem_open(SEM_NAME,0,0644,0); if(mutex == SEM_FAILED) { perror("reader:unable to execute semaphore"); sem_close(mutex); exit(-1); } //create the shared memory segment with this key shmid = shmget(key,SHMSZ,0666); if(shmid<0) { perror("reader:failure in shmget"); exit(-1); } //attach this segment to virtual memory shm = (char*) shmat(shmid,NULL,0); //start reading s = shm; for(s=shm;*s!=0;s++) { sem_wait(mutex); putchar(*s); sem_post(mutex); } //once done signal exiting of reader:This can be replaced by another semaphore *shm = '*'; sem_close(mutex); shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, 0); exit(0); }