1.0 Shared Memory Shared memory is an inter process communication (IPC) mechanism in Linux and other UNIX-like systems. Based on input parameters, the kernel provides a (shared) memory segment to the calling process. The calling process maps the shared memory segment to its address space. This way, the same shared memory segment can be mapped …
1.0 Shared Memory Shared memory is one of the three inter process communication (IPC) mechanisms available under Linux and other Unix-like systems. The other two IPC mechanisms are the message queues and semaphores. In case of shared memory, a shared memory segment is created by the kernel and mapped to the data segment of the …
1.0 FIFO FIFOs are pipes with a name and are also commonly referred to as named pipes. Pipes are common on Linux command lines but do not have a system-wide name. So, any two processes that wish to communicate using a pipe need to be related, either parent and child or, sharing a common parent, …
1.0 Interprocess communication A process is an active operating system entity which executes programs. Normally, a process, like a specialist, does one particular job (well). In real life, there are complex workflows and we, often, have multiple processes collaborating to accomplish certain objectives. In order to work together, processes need to exchange data. So we …
