This project implements a multi-threaded concurrent web server based on the single-threaded server from Arpaci-Dusseau's repo for Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Incoming HTTP requests for HTML files are handled by a worker thread pool. The scheduler manages the worker thread pool with either a first in first out (FIFO) or shortest file first (SFF) policy. The worker threads are the consumers in a producer-consumer relationship with the main thread, waiting for the main thread to add new requests to the scheduler. The client creates a thread to request the server for each of one or multiple files.
wserver [-d basedir] [-p port] [-t threads] [-b buffers] [-s schedalg]
The server serves files from the basedir directory and runs on the specified port on localhost. The server creates threads number of worker threads and will accept up to buffers number of request connections at once. The scheduling policy provided in schedalg can either be SFF or FIFO. Defaults are provided in the common header.
wclient <host> <port> <file path(s)>
The client makes requests for the listed files to the provided host and port. The file paths should be relative to the basedir used by the server.
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