From 87e8caede82654c73b2fd5ba1c3f66786304d130 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: randomuser <randomuser@tilde.club>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:08:58 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] simple gopher server implimentation

---
 slopher.sh | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 slopher.sh

diff --git a/slopher.sh b/slopher.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1caca7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/slopher.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -x
+
+createsrv () {
+  # $1 - port
+  # $2 - write location
+  # $3 - read location
+  [ -p "$2" ] || mkfifo "$2"
+  [ -e "$3" ] || touch "$3"
+
+  nc -l "$1" <"$2" >>"$3" & exec 3>"$2"
+}
+writefile () {
+  # $1 - file
+  foo cat "$1" >&3
+}
+ioblock () {
+  # $1 - io to block
+  while [ "$(wc -l $1 | awk -F' ' '{print $1}')" -eq 0 ]; do :; done
+}
+ioflush () {
+  # $1 - io to flush
+  rm "$1"
+  touch "$1"
+}
+mktmp () {
+  t=$(mktemp)
+  rm "$t"
+  mkdir "$t"
+  printf "%s\n" "$t"
+}
+tmplocation=$(mktmp)
+writelocation="${tmplocation}/write"
+readlocation="${tmplocation}/read"
+
+createsrv 70 "${writelocation}" "${readlocation}"
+printf "server created\n"
+while true; do
+  ioblock "${readlocation}"
+  printf "iHello there! This is a test\tfake\t\t0\r\n.\r\n" >&3
+  printf "file served\n"
+  ioflush "${readlocation}"
+done
+exit 1