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H. DuttInterprocess Communication with macOShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7045-5_1

1. Introduction to IPC on macOS

Hem Dutt1  
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North Delhi, Delhi, India
 

In the computing world, processes execute to accomplish specified computation. A process which is acting independently does not get affected by the execution of other processes. Though it seems that the processes that are running independently will execute very efficiently and are less error prone, in reality, there could be many situations when cooperative processes can be utilized for increasing modularity, computational speed, and convenience but at the cost of increased complexity.

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