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libipc

libipc - Simple, easy-to-use IPC library

See the introductory man page in man/libipc.7.

See the presentation in docs/libipc.md.

This library is a work in progress, but is already used intensively in production. It works, but we provide no warranty.

Compilation

make

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
  • libipc will be rewritten in Zig

Planning for 0.9

  • libipc should use epoll/kqueue for performance improvments
    • new functions will be added to the API
    • but we'll keep the same API for applications with no need for threading (way simpler implementation)
  • libipc should be thread-safe

Planning for 1.0

  • 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.