SO

Grade: 18.75/20 ⭐️

A Server-Client App, made for our SO class.

This project:

• Allows communication between a server an client, through FIFOs.
• Implements a LRU cache, using GLib and linked-lists, allowing for more efficient searches in the server
• Multi processes concurrent search, allowing for more efficient searches in the server
• Presistence of information in disk

Compiling

$ make

Running the server

$ ./bin/dserver <dataset_path> <cache_size>

Indexing a file

$ ./bin/dclient -a "title" "authors" "year" "path"

Deleting a file

$ ./bin/dclient -a "title" "authors" "year" "path"

Shutting server down

$ ./bin/dclient -f

Consulting a file meta_information

$ ./bin/dclient -c "key"

Searching for the number of lines that a keyword appeares in a file

$ ./bin/dclient -l "key" "keyword"

Searching for the files where a keyword appears

$ ./bin/dclient -s "keyword" "nr_processes"(optional)

Contributing

As a university group project, we cannot allow external contributors.

Group Members

• Salomé Faria (a108487)
• Sara Silva (a104608)
• Zita Duarte (a104268)