im writing a chat server in c and am need help.
my server can write to a socket, the client can read from the socket.
How do i have the client write to the socket and have the server read from
the client socket?
server.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

int main(){

int sockfd = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
if(sockfd  < 0) return 1;

struct sockaddr_in server;
server.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
server.sin_port = htons(2020);
server.sin_family = AF_INET;

if((bind(sockfd,(struct sockaddr *)&server,sizeof(server))) < 0 ){
printf("Bind Error\n");
return 1;
}

struct sockaddr_in client;
socklen_t clientsize = sizeof(client);

listen(sockfd,1);

int clientfd = accept(sockfd,(struct sockaddr *)&server,&clientsize);
if(accept < 0){
printf("Accept Error\n");
return 1;
}


char message[20];
printf("Enter a Line: ");
fgets(message,sizeof(message),stdin);

int c=0;
while(message[c++] != '\n'){

}

write(clientfd,message,c);

//want to read from client connection

close(sockfd);
close(clientfd);

return 0;
}

client.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>

int main(){

	int sockfd = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);

	if(sockfd < 0) return 1;

	struct sockaddr_in client;
	client.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("local");
	client.sin_port = htons(2020);
	client.sin_family = AF_INET;

	int serverfd = connect(sockfd,(struct sockaddr *)&client,sizeof(client));
		if(serverfd < 0){
		printf("Connect Error\n");
		return 1;
		}

	int b[2];
	while(read(sockfd,b,1) > 0){
		printf("%c",b[0]);
		b[1] = '\0';
	}
	printf("\n");

	char bu[2] = {'l','e'};
	write(sockfd,b,2);

	close(sockfd);


	return 0;
}

server.c

// Add read from client connection
write(clientfd,message,c);
int b[2];
while(read(clientfd,b,1) > 0){
     /* 
         Don't have the check here because the client
         closes the socket and that causes the return 
         from the read to be -1 and while loop with exit
    */
    printf("%c",b[0]);
    b[1] = '\0';
}
printf("\n");
close(sockfd);
close(clientfd);
return 0;
}

client.c

int b[2];
	while(read(sockfd,b,1) > 0){
                /* 
                    Need to add this to break out of the while loop
                    because the read function will block forever or 
                    until the socket is closed 
                */
                if (b[0] == '\n')
                    break;
		printf("%c",b[0]);
		b[1] = '\0';
	}
	printf("\n");
	char bu[2] = {'l','e'};
	write(sockfd,bu,2);
	close(sockfd);
	return 0;
}
$ ./ser
Enter a Line: This is a test
le
$ ./cl
This is a test
$
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