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Notes:
Pipes - unidirectional communication from sender to receiver
- can only be used between related processes
FIFOs - also called named pipes
- unrelated processes can exchange data
Message queues - linked list of messages, identified by a message queue
Semaphones - a counter used to provide access to a shared data object for
Shared memory - memory region shared by multiple processes
- fastest form of IPC since data is not copied
>>> these 3 function groups found in library /lib/libsvipc.a
