Re: IPC

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

"Allan M. Wind" <wind@freewwweb.com> writes:

> How does one process communicate with another at run-time (sockets,
> files and pipes excluded)?  For example, how is ""netscape -remote"
> implemented?  mmap?

For Netscape, see
<URL:http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html>.  Many X
programs use something similar - install xbooks and browse through
them, especially the ICCCM stuff.

The other possibility you haven't mentioned is the SysV IPC functions:
    msgctl, msgget, msgrcv, msgsnd, semctl, semget,
    semop, shmctl, shmget, shmread and shmwrite

See the respective man pages.

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