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Other Linux IPC mechanismsOther Linux IPC mechanismsPosted Nov 12, 2011 2:07 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Other Linux IPC mechanisms by abacus Parent article: Fast interprocess communication revisited
I don't think the point was to show all the possible IPC that Linux supports.
fifos, files, pipes, posix message queues, posix semaphores, signals, and sockets are all forms of IPC.
I believe that the PTHREAD stuff uses the POSIX version of shared memory, but you can also use the "System V"-style shared memory, system v message queues, and system v semaphores for other things.
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Other Linux IPC mechanisms Posted Nov 12, 2011 3:37 UTC (Sat) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]
Precisely.
I think that a survey of all the different IPC mechanisms, comparing and contrasting their features, discussing the appropriate use cases and actual libraries/apps that use them, together with various performance measurements (with code) would make a very interesting and valuable article.
But this was not that article.
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