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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00710000000000000000">6.1 Introduction</A></H1>
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The Linux IPC (Inter-process communication) facilities provide a method for
multiple processes to communicate with one another. There are several
methods of IPC available to Linux C programmers:
<UL><LI> Half-duplex UNIX pipes<LI> FIFOs (named pipes)<LI> SYSV style message queues<LI> SYSV style semaphore sets<LI> SYSV style shared memory segments<LI> Networking sockets (Berkeley style) (not covered in this paper)<LI> Full-duplex pipes (STREAMS pipes) (not covered in this paper)
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These facilities, when used effectively, provide a solid framework for
client/server development on any UNIX system (including Linux).
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