Virtual Serial Port (VSP V1)

Server

• Reads data from the serial port
• Writes a raw copy of data to a log file
• Fulfills read requests to 1 client
• Makes available to client all data since server started running.
• Stops running when killed: - Don't run as official daemon, just as a regular process at present.
• Reads "vspserver.conf" to get configuration details
  
  

  HOSTPORT=N
  DEVICE="/dev/DEVICE_NAME"
  SPEED=N
  LOGFILE="name"

Client

• Opens connection to server
• Reads data and writes to standard output until server indicates that no more data is available.
• reads "vspclient.conf" to get configuration details
  
  

  HOSTIP=N.N.N.N
  HOSTPORT=N

Logistics

• Due Mon, March 17, midnight (almost Tuesday)
• Please call your files the following names:
  • The server code should be in "server.cpp"
  • The client code should be in "client.cpp"
  • The server config file is "vspserver.conf"
  • The client config file is "vspclient.conf"
• You will be notified about the setup when we have a couple systems in the Dungeon set up to handle the data test. In the meantime, fake serial input using a file of your choice.