Linux: Inter Process Communication

The Linux IPC (Inter-process communication) facilities provide a methods for multiple processes to communicate with one another.
IPC Types:
  • Half-duplex UNIX pipes
  • FIFOs (named pipes)
  • Message queues
  • Semaphore 
  • Shared Memory
  • Networking sockets
Shared memory is the fastest IPC mechanism.

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