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Assignment 4 - ProcChat

ProcChat

Due date 23:59 Tuesday 18 May 2021 (local Sydney

time)

This assessment is CONFIDENTIAL. ? University of Sydney

ProcChat

You are to develop a localised chat server that will support a number of clients through named pipes

(FIFOs). The server and client applications will communicate through a ?xed sized binary protocol.

The server will manage a global named pipe for establishing connections, after a connection has been

established it will construct a separate read and write named pipes for the client to utilise. The client

will communicate to the server over the named pipes. The server must be able to read from all clients

asynchronously.

Global Process

The global server is involved in facilitating the initial connection from clients.

This process will be responsible for creating the separate client handler daemons responding to each

client as a separate process. These processes will need to listen to all messages sent from the client

and write to back to the client and any other client's named pipe to relay messages from client to

others.

The global event pipe goes by the name gevent , this pipe should only be read by the global process

but can be written to by any other process.

Client-Handler

A client-handler is spawned when a client is connected, a client-handler will be relegated to a specic

domain. A domain is simply a folder relative to the current working directory.

The Protocol

The system uses a binary message protocol to facilitate communication between the server, client-

handler and client. The server and client interaction is simply for acknowledgement and setting up

the named pipes. The main protocol will be used between the client-handler and the client. The clienthandler

is spawned by the global server process to handle a client and will communicate with the

client.

The binary message is broken up two parts, the rst part being the type of message and the second

being contents related to the type. The type will determine how to interpret the contents in the

second part. Each message is 2048 bytes.

Under each message type in the following sections, the binary representation will be presented. The

type is at the start of the message and is 2 bytes in size.

Anatomy of a message:

+-------------+---------------------+

|type: 2 bytes| contents: 2046 bytes|

+-------------+---------------------+

GlobalProcess-Client Protocol

CONNECT <identifier> <domain>

Type Decimal: 0

Type Binary: 00000000 00000000

The client will connect to the server, the server will construct two named pipes the identier. The

client is expected to connect to the named pipes after sending a well formed connect message to the

server.

The identier part of the message is maximum 256 characters ASCII encoded. The domain

component will map to a folder relative to the current working directory.

ClientHandler-Client Protocol

SAY <message>

Type Decimal: 1

Type Binary: 00000000 00000001

Packet Layout:

Type: 2bytes

Message: 1790bytes, ASCII characters

The client will send the SAY command to the client-handler, the client-handler will need to relay this

to all other clients that are connected to same domain using the RECEIVE message. The contents

maximum is 1790 characters.

SAYCONT <message> <termination>

Type Decimal: 2

Type Binary: 00000000 00000010

Packet Layout:

Type: 2bytes

Message: 1789bytes, ASCII characters

Termination: 1byte, 255 indicates termination

The client will send the SAYCONT command to the client-handler, this is a variation on SAY in which

the server will relay the message as a RECVCONT. SAY command typically sends one message within

2046 bytes of its message contents. SAYCONT reserves the 2046th byte as a termination byte for the

message's contents, when the termination byte represents the value 255, the message is considered

complete. The maximum message is 1789 characters.

The bu?ering of the SAYCONT messages will occur on client side. Note this detail when testing your

code.

RECEIVE <identifier> <message>

Type Decimal: 3

Type Binary: 00000000 00000011

Packet Layout:

Type: 2bytes

Identier: 256bytes

Message: 1790bytes

This message is sent from the client-handler to all other clients (excludes sender). When a client has

sent a SAY message to the client-handler, the client-handler relays the message along with the

identier to all other clients in the domain. The contents (2046 bytes) where the rst 256 bytes are

reserved for the identier and the 1790 bytes afterwards is the message.

RECVCONT <identifier> <message> <termination>

Type Decimal: 4

Type Binary: 00000000 00000100

Packet Layout:

Type: 2bytes

Identier: 256bytes

Message: 1789bytes Termination: 1byte

Similar to SAYCONT, the client handler will be sending the message in chunks to the client. The

message will contain an identier (who sent it) and send termination byte.

The buering of the RECVCONT messages will occur on client side. Note this detail when testing.

DISCONNECT

Type Decimal: 7

Type Binary: 00000000 00000111

Packet Layout:

Type: 2bytes

This message is sent from the client to the client-handler. This will tell the client-handler that the

FIFOs can be removed and the handler can be terminated.

Extension

PING

Type Decimal: 5

Type Binary: 00000000 00000101

Packet Layout:

Type: 2bytes

The PING message is sent from the client-handler to the client. This is to check that the client is still

alive in the event the process crashed. This extension requires some form of asynchronous IO to be

implemented. The PING message is sent every 15 seconds from the server.

PONG

Type Decimal: 6

Type Binary: 00000000 00000110

Packet Layout:

Type: 2bytes

The PONG message is sent from the client to the client-handler. This is the response to the PING

message being sent from the server to check if it is still alive.

Daemon Alive

Each client-handler will send a signal to the global process under SIGUSR1 to indicate that it is

shutting down. The global process can use this information, to clean up the process before the child

becomes a zombie process.

As an extension, you are required to implement PING and PONG messages that will check that the

client is still alive. Every 15 seconds, the client-handler will send a PING message to a client, requiring

the client to respond to the message. with PONG.

Restrictions

You are prohibited from using threads within this assignment. Communication between users in the

chat room must be facilitated via the client handler. The client handler will be a separate process

from the global process.

No VLAs

No Excessive CPU usage

No Zombie Processes (clean up your processes when you can)

If your program does not adhere to these restrictions, your submission will receive 0.

Make sure you thoroughly test your program and construct a mini-client program to interact with

your server.

Marking Criteria

The following is the marking break, each point contributes a portion to the total 15% of the

assignment. You will receive a result of zero if your program fails to compile.

5% Test Cases - Your Program must pass public, private and hidden test cases, to achieve the

maximum number of points awarded for this section.

6% Solution Discussion - You will need to answer questions from a COMP2017 teaching sta?

member regarding your implementation. You will be required to attend zoom session with

COMP2017 teaching sta? member after the code submission deadline. A reasonable attempt

will need to be made, otherwise you will receive zero for the assessment. Failure to attend will

result in zero for the assessment. In this session, you will be asked to explain:

How your solution communicates between the client-handler and client?

How are you handling erroneous messages?

How is your solution handling client failure?

Answer further questions regarding your test cases, code style and knowledge.

2% Extension - Your client-handler must be able to detect when a client is no longer alive. This

must be a clear use of non-blocking IO and multiplexing.

2% Test Cases - Your solution must include a suite of test cases that should be automated and

executable with the given make script. Please make sure your test suite outputs the result of

each test case in a human readable format.

Academic Declaration

By submitting this assignment, you declare the following:

I declare that I have read and understood the University of Sydney Student Plagiarism: Coursework Policy

and Procedure, and except where speci?cally acknowledged, the work contained in this

assignment/project is my own work, and has not been copied from other sources or been previously

submitted for award or assessment.

I understand that failure to comply with the Student Plagiarism: Coursework Policy and Procedure can

lead to severe penalties as outlined under Chapter 8 of the University of Sydney By-Law 1999 (as

amended). These penalties may be imposed in cases where any signi?cant portion of my submitted work

has been copied without proper acknowledgement from other sources, including published works, the

Internet, existing programs, the work of other students, or work previously submitted for other awards or

assessments.

I realise that I may be asked to identify those portions of the work contributed by me and required to

demonstrate my knowledge of the relevant material by answering oral questions or by undertaking

supplementary work, either written or in the laboratory, in order to arrive at the ?nal assessment mark.

I acknowledge that the School of Computer Science, in assessing this assignment, may reproduce it

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