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Smallchat is a minimalistic chat server implemented in C, designed as a small-scale example (for didactic purposes) of writing system software such as network servers, multiplexed I/O and client state handling. The project shows how you can build a working chat server (accepting clients, broadcasting messages) in very few lines of C, without heavy libraries or frameworks—essentially minimal code, minimal dependencies, and minimal feature-set to illustrate the core concepts. It uses the simplest assumptions (for example: clients connect via telnet or netcat, line-based I/O) and keeps the message logic straightforward: each received line from one client is broadcast to all others (fan-out). ...