Operating Systems · Processes and threads

Interprocess communication

Pipes, shared memory, and message passing, the ways separate processes exchange data safely.

Also known as: IPC, pipes, shared memory, message passing.

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• Process creation and control: The fork, exec, and wait calls that create, replace, and clean up processes.

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• Threads: Multiple independent execution paths sharing one process's address space.