What is IPC? What are the various schemes available?
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Answer / rohil
Different types of IPC mechanism are
1.PIPES
2.NAMED PIPES
3.SEMAPHORES
4.SHARED MEMORY
5.MESSAGE QUEUE
6.SOCKETS
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Answer / prashanth
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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Answer / devesh bissa
Following IPC mechanisms are available:-
1)Signal
2)Pipe
3)FIFO
4)System V's :- a)Semaphore b)Shared Memory c)Message Queue
5)Socket
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Answer / wizards
Inter Process Communication. IPC is used to pass information
between two or more processes.
Schemes are pipes, shared memory & semaphore.
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Answer / aditi khoje
Inter-Process-Communication (or IPC
The Linux kernel provides the following IPC mechanisms:
Signals
Anonymous Pipes
Named Pipes or FIFOs
SysV Message Queues
POSIX Message Queues
SysV Shared memory
POSIX Shared memory
SysV semaphores
POSIX semaphores
FUTEX locks
File-backed and anonymous shared memory using mmap
UNIX Domain Sockets
Netlink Sockets
Network Sockets
Inotify mechanisms
FUSE subsystem
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