Interprocess Communications

Notes

• 3.4
• Processes might want to communicate
  • To share information
  • To speed up computations - but I think this is a subset of the first
  • To promote modularity - we will look at threads in the next
• There are several IPC or InterProcess Communicacations mechanisms
  • Shared Memory
  • Message Passing
• These are messy
  • So it has taken a while to get them "right"
  • And they might be somewhat complex.