Use of select or multithread for almost 80 or more clients?
- by Tushar Goel
I am working on one project in which i need to read from 80 or more clients and then write their o/p into a file continuously and then read these new data for another task. My question is what should i use select or multithreading?
Also I tried to use multi threading using read/fgets and write/fputs call but as they are blocking calls and one operation can be performed at one time so it is not feasible. Any idea is much appreciated.
update 1: I have tried to implement the same using condition variable. I able to achieve this but it is writing and reading one at a time.When another client tried to write then it cannot able to write unless i quit from the 1st thread. I do not understand this. This should work now. What mistake i am doing?
Update 2: Thanks all .. I am able to succeeded to get this model implemented using mutex condition variable.
updated Code is as below:
**header file*******
char *mailbox ;
pthread_mutex_t lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER ;
pthread_cond_t writer = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER;
int main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
pthread_t t1 , t2;
pthread_attr_t attr;
int fd, sock , *newfd;
struct sockaddr_in cliaddr;
socklen_t clilen;
void *read_file();
void *update_file();
//making a server socket
if((fd=make_server(atoi(argv[1])))==-1)
oops("Unable to make server",1)
//detaching threads
pthread_attr_init(&attr);
pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&attr,PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED);
///opening thread for reading
pthread_create(&t2,&attr,read_file,NULL);
while(1)
{
clilen = sizeof(cliaddr);
//accepting request
sock=accept(fd,(struct sockaddr *)&cliaddr,&clilen);
//error comparison against failire of request and INT
if(sock==-1 && errno != EINTR)
oops("accept",2)
else if ( sock ==-1 && errno == EINTR)
oops("Pressed INT",3)
newfd = (int *)malloc(sizeof(int));
*newfd = sock;
//creating thread per request
pthread_create(&t1,&attr,update_file,(void *)newfd);
}
free(newfd);
return 0;
}
void *read_file(void *m)
{
pthread_mutex_lock(&lock);
while(1)
{
printf("Waiting for lock.\n");
pthread_cond_wait(&writer,&lock);
printf("I am reading here.\n");
printf("%s",mailbox);
mailbox = NULL ;
pthread_cond_signal(&writer);
}
}
void *update_file(int *m)
{
int sock = *m;
int fs ;
int nread;
char buffer[BUFSIZ] ;
if((fs=open("database.txt",O_RDWR))==-1)
oops("Unable to open file",4)
while(1)
{
pthread_mutex_lock(&lock);
write(1,"Waiting to get writer lock.\n",29);
if(mailbox != NULL)
pthread_cond_wait(&writer,&lock);
lseek(fs,0,SEEK_END);
printf("Reading from socket.\n");
nread=read(sock,buffer,BUFSIZ);
printf("Writing in file.\n");
write(fs,buffer,nread);
mailbox = buffer ;
pthread_cond_signal(&writer);
pthread_mutex_unlock(&lock);
}
close(fs);
}
