Unix IPC Question:
What is IPC? What are the various schemes available?
Answer:
Inter Process Communication. IPC is used to pass information
between two or more processes.
Schemes are pipes, shared memory & semaphore.
Below are the different IPC methods
1. Semaphores
2. FIFO's (Also called Named Pipes)
3. Message Queues
4. Shared Memory
between two or more processes.
Schemes are pipes, shared memory & semaphore.
Below are the different IPC methods
1. Semaphores
2. FIFO's (Also called Named Pipes)
3. Message Queues
4. Shared Memory
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