When I wrote about Inter Process Communication, shared memory and signals I promised I’ll suggest an easier way of sending messages between process in a way that one of them gets notified. Shared memory and signals is great, but it wasn’t the right choice for my example. Today I’ll explain so-called Unix sockets and as […]
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IPC examples – signals and shared memory
There are numerous ways programs can talk to each other. Modern operating systems provide decent isolation for security reasons, but programs must talk to each other this way or another. Today, after 2 articles on AWS, I’ll return to more generic IT topics. I’m going to describe 2 IPC (which stands for Inter Process Communication) […]