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Mastering Embedded Linux Programming - Second Edition
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Mastering Embedded Linux Programming - Second Edition

by Chris Simmonds
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
13h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Inter-process communication

Each process is an island of memory. You can pass information from one to another in two ways. Firstly, you can copy it from one address space to the other. Secondly, you can create an area of memory that both can access and share the data.

The first is usually combined with a queue or buffer so that there is a sequence of messages passing between processes. This implies copying the message twice: first to a holding area and then to the destination. Some examples of this are sockets, pipes, and message queues.

The second way requires not only a method of creating memory that is mapped into two (or more) address spaces at once, but it is also a means of synchronizing access to that memory, for example, using semaphores ...

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