interprocess communications

• POSIX signals between related processes

• named pipes between unrelated processes

  • create named pipes with POSIX mkfifo command

• unnamed pipes to child processes

  • create using Perl open() function with "|"

• Internet-domain TCP and UDP sockets

• Unix-domain stream sockets

• SysV IPC - shared memory, semaphores, messages

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