Chapter 15. POSIX IPC
The classical UNIX interprocess communication (IPC) mechanisms of shared memory, message queues and semaphore sets are standardized in the POSIX:XSI Extension. These mechanisms, which allow unrelated processes to exchange information in a reasonably efficient way, use a key to identify, create or access the corresponding entity. The entities may persist in the system beyond the lifetime of the process that creates them, but conveniently, POSIX:XSI also provides shell commands to list and remove them.
Learn about classical interprocess communication Experiment with synchronized shared memory Explore semaphore implementations Use message queues for interprocess logging Understand the consequences of persistence
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