# ipcd

A userspace daemon for interprocess communication.

## Usage

See the `examples` folder.

Simply open `chan:<name>` with O_CREAT where `<name>` is any name you'd like to create a listener.  
This listener can accept clients by calling `dup("listen")`.

Open `chan:<name>` without O_CREAT to connect. Now you can read and write between both streams.

## How To Contribute

To learn how to contribute to this system component you need to read the following document:

- [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)

## Development

To learn how to do development with this system component inside the Redox build system you need to read the [Build System](https://doc.redox-os.org/book/build-system-reference.html) and [Coding and Building](https://doc.redox-os.org/book/coding-and-building.html) pages.

### How To Build

To build this system component you need to download the Redox build system, you can learn how to do it on the [Building Redox](https://doc.redox-os.org/book/podman-build.html) page.

This is necessary because they only work with cross-compilation to a Redox virtual machine, but you can do some testing from Linux.