The purpose of this library is to multiplex multiple virtual communication channels
over a single "physical" channel. See file include/smux.h for detailed interface
documentation. For convenience, a c++ wrapper is available at include/smux.hpp.
The library itself has no dependencies beyond standard c/c++ lib. For compiling, go
into directory lib and type make.
However, in order to run the unit tests, Boost.Test is required (lib boost_unit_test_framework).
To build and run the tests, go into directory lib and type make test.
The host application is intended to be run on a Unix-like system and provides means to connect
various applications to the individual channels. In order to allow the largest possible flexibility,
it integrates with the great socat tool that offers all the tool you need to connect to whatever
type of sink or source you like to connect to.
The host application can be built from the root directory by running make. The application will
be compiled as bin/main/smux/smux.
Run smux -h for a brief explanation of the usage of the program.
Connect the master side to a console at /dev/pts/16 and open terminals for the channels 0 and 42:
smux -m file:/dev/pts/16 -c 0=socat:pty,rawer -c 42=socat:pty,rawer
Read master side from stdin, write master to a file/pipe called "out" and connect channel 12 to stdin/stdout of a "program".
smux -m stdio%file:out 12=exec:program