What is IPC? What are the various schemes available?

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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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