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Interprocess Communication (IPC)
How isolated processes talk to each other, pipes, sockets, shared memory, and the trade-offs between them. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 19 minutes in all.
- Chapter 13 of 37
- About 19 minutes
- 9 sections
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In this chapter
- Why processes need to talk
- Shared memory, the fastest channel
- Pipes, the shell’s workhorse
- Named pipes (FIFOs), pipes with a name
- Message queues, discrete messages, kept in order
- Signals, asynchronous notifications
- Sockets, the general-purpose channel
- Message passing vs shared memory, the core trade-off
- IPC in the real world & why engineers care
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