October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
704 pages
18h 44m
English
Processes can communicate with each other by using one of several types of interprocess communication (IPC). IPC allows information transfer or synchronization to occur between processes. Solaris supports four different groups of interprocess communication: basic IPC, System V IPC, POSIX IPC, and advanced Solaris IPC.
Solaris implements traditional IPC facilities such as local sockets and pipes. A local socket is a network-like connection using the socket(2) system call to directly connect two processes.
A pipe directly channels data flow from one process to another through an object that operates like a file. Data is inserted at one end of the pipe and travels to the receiving processes ...
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