Interprocess Communication with macOS: Apple IPC Methods

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H. DuttInterprocess Communication with macOShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7045-5_6

6. IPC Through Distributed Notifications

Hem Dutt¹  

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North Delhi, Delhi, India

 

The Foundation framework provides a programming architecture for passing around information about the occurrence of events. This architecture (Figure 6-1) deals with notifications and the notification center.

Figure 6-1

MVC design pattern diagram from developer.apple.com

Notifications

A notification encapsulates information about an event, for example, a background sync operation with a server ...