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author | sotech117 <michael_foiani@brown.edu> | 2023-09-25 23:07:20 -0400 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-09-25 23:07:20 -0400 |
commit | 99488133dad8e8b6311c6719b8ee7688b0f1b7a6 (patch) | |
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Running the 3 executables without arguments will tell you the necessary argument I did not implement origonal design doc, due to random malloc errors with the autograder. I rewrote the server, with the the design... * A "select_thread" controls accepting new clients and responding to commands from clients. It redirects the logic to separate helper functions to send replies. -* The station information is held by an array. Each station has a thread that broadcasts to the listeners every half-second (at half the rate per second). During the downtime of this half-second, the station file is read into a buffer and threads are created off of this buffer, waiting to be released. At the top of the second, the station thread then bradcasts a `cond` variable to start all threads that send the station. +* The station information is held by an array. Each station has a thread that broadcasts to the listeners every half-second (at half the rate per second). At the bottom of this half-second, the station file is read into a buffer and threads are created off of this buffer, waiting to be released. At the top of this half-second, the station thread then bradcasts a `cond` variable to start all threads that send the station. * The `users` pointer containing the user data (along with the separate stations pointer) has a mutex `users_mutex` that allows safe-thread write and deletion. This pointer is also dynamic, using realloc when more memory is needed. There are a few memory optimizations implemented (see `init_user(...)`). * The code is well documented, so many smaller design choices can be read there :) |