libipc-old/README.md

libipc

libipc - Simple, easy-to-use IPC library

See the introductory man page.

Compilation

make

logging system

Logs are in one of the following directories: $XDG_DATA_HOME/ipc/ or $HOME/.local/share/ipc/. The log file can be indicated with the IPC_LOGFILE environment variable, too.

To remove logs: make LDFLAGS=-DIPC_WITHOUT_ERRORS

Since 0.7

• libipc have callbacks to use along with switching capabilities, making easier to implement proxies for different communication protocols

Planning for 0.8

For performance improvements within libipc:

• libipc shouldn't use realloc for each event (new client, new message, etc.) but by batch of a few thousand elements
• libipc should use better internal structures, unrequiring the use of loops (over the whole list of messages or connections) for each action

Planning for 0.9

• libipc should use libevent for performance improvments
• libipc should be thread-safe

Planning for 1.0

• libipc may be written in Zig
• libipc should have usable bindings in several languages

Implementation design

Memory management

1. Prefer stack over mallocs.
2. Basic functions (such as usock_) should not handle memory allocation.