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Extreme C

You're reading from   Extreme C Taking you to the limit in Concurrency, OOP, and the most advanced capabilities of C

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343625
Length 822 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kamran Amini Kamran Amini
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Essential Features FREE CHAPTER 2. From Source to Binary 3. Object Files 4. Process Memory Structure 5. Stack and Heap 6. OOP and Encapsulation 7. Composition and Aggregation 8. Inheritance and Polymorphism 9. Abstraction and OOP in C++ 10. Unix – History and Architecture 11. System Calls and Kernels 12. The Most Recent C 13. Concurrency 14. Synchronization 15. Thread Execution 16. Thread Synchronization 17. Process Execution 18. Process Synchronization 19. Single-Host IPC and Sockets 20. Socket Programming 21. Integration with Other Languages 22. Unit Testing and Debugging 23. Build Systems 24. Other Books You May Enjoy
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26. Index

IPC techniques

An IPC technique generally refers to any means that is used by processes to communicate and transmit data. In the previous chapter, we discussed filesystems and shared memory as our beginning approach to share data between two processes. We didn't use the term 'IPC' for these techniques at that point, but this is in fact what they are! In this chapter, we will add a few more IPC techniques to the ones that we have encountered already, but we should remember that they are different in a number of ways. Before jumping to the differences and trying to categorize them, let's list some IPC techniques:

  • Shared memory
  • Filesystem (both on disk and in memory)
  • POSIX signals
  • POSIX pipes
  • POSIX message queues
  • Unix domain sockets
  • Internet (or network) sockets

From the programming point of view, the shared memory and filesystem techniques are similar in certain ways and because of that they can be put into the same group...

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