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+title: "Developer tutorial 1: Writing your first Ouroboros C program"
+draft: false
+---
+
+This tutorial will guide you to write your first ouroboros program. It
+will use the basic Ouroboros IPC Application Programming Interface. It
+will has a client and a server that send a small message from the client
+to the server.
+
+We will explain how to connect two applications. The server application
+uses the flow_accept() call to accept incoming connections and the
+client uses the flow_alloc() call to connect to the server. The
+flow_accept and flow_alloc call have the following definitions:
+
+```
+int flow_accept(qosspec_t * qs, const struct timespec * timeo);
+int flow_alloc(const char * dst, qosspec_t * qs, const struct
+timespec * timeo);
+```
+
+On the server side, the flow_accept() call is a blocking call that will
+wait for an incoming flow from a client. On the client side, the
+flow_alloc() call is a blocking call that allocates a flow to *dst*.
+Both calls return an non-negative integer number describing a "flow
+descriptor", which is very similar to a file descriptor. On error, they
+will return a negative error code. (See the [man
+page](/man/man3/flow_alloc.html) for all details). If the *timeo*
+parameter supplied is NULL, the calls will block indefinitely, otherwise
+flow_alloc() will return -ETIMEDOUT when the time interval provided by
+*timeo* expires. We are working on implementing non-blocking versions if
+the provided *timeo* is 0.
+
+After the flow is allocated, the flow_read() and flow_write() calls
+are used to read from the flow descriptor. They operate just like the
+read() and write() POSIX calls. The default behaviour is that these
+calls will block. To release the resource, the flow can be deallocated
+using flow_dealloc.
+
+```
+ssize_t flow_write(int fd, const void * buf, size_t count);
+ssize_t flow_read(int fd, void * buf, size_t count); int
+flow_dealloc(int fd);
+```
+
+So a very simple application would just need a couple of lines of code
+for both the server and the client:
+
+```
+/* server side */
+char msg[BUF_LEN];
+int fd = flow_accept(NULL, NULL);
+flow_read(fd, msg, BUF_LEN);
+flow_dealloc(fd);
+
+/* client side */
+char * msg = "message";
+int fd = flow_alloc("server", NULL, NULL);
+flow_write(fd, msg, strlen(msg));
+flow_dealloc(fd);
+```
+
+The full code for an example is the
+[oecho](/cgit/ouroboros/tree/src/tools/oecho/oecho.c)
+application in the tools directory.
+
+To compile your C program from the command line, you have to link
+-lourobos-dev. For instance, in the Ouroboros repository, you can do
+
+```
+cd src/tools/oecho
+gcc -louroboros-dev oecho.c -o oecho
+```
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