Inter-process communication in Linux: Using pipes and message queues


This is the second article in a series about interprocess communication (IPC) in Linux. The first article focused on IPC through shared storage: shared files and shared memory segments. This article turns to pipes, which are channels that connect processes for communication. A channel has a write end for writing bytes, and a read end for reading these bytes in FIFO (first in, first out) order. In typical use, one process writes to the channel, and a different process reads from this same channel. The bytes themselves might represent anything: numbers, employee records, digital movies, and so on.
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