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IPC may also be referred to as ''inter-thread communication'' and ''inter-application communication.''


IMPLEMENTATIONS

There are a number of (CORBA); Distributed Computing Environment (DCE); Message Bus (MBUS) (specified in RFC 3259); Anonymous Pipe s and Named Pipe s; and Socket s.

The following are platform specific APIs: Apple Computer 's Apple Events (previously known as Interapplication Communications (IAC)).; Freedesktop.org 's D-BUS ; KDE 's Desktop Communications Protocol (DCOP); the Mach Kernel 's Mach Port s; Microsoft 's ActiveX , Component Object Model (COM), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), and Object Linking And Embedding (OLE); Novell 's SPX ; POSIX Mmap , message queues, semaphores, and shared memory; RISC OS 's messages; Sun Microsystems 's RPC ; System V 's message queues, semaphores, and shared memory; XML XML-RPC or SOAP ; and ZeroC 's Internet Communications Engine (ICE).

Table of IPC Methods:


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REFERENCES

  • Stevens, Richard . ''UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2, Second Edition: Interprocess Communications.'' Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN 0130810819