Series

Inter-process communication in Unix

This series will cover various techniques for inter-process communication in a Unix-like environment. It's based on "Beej's Guide to Interprocess Communication", which I highly recommend.

Articles in this series

fork() and signals

Apr 27, 2023152 views

IPC in Unix - part 1 · While thinking about the Producer and Consumer from the previous article, I realized I'm not that familiar with the various ways...

fork() and signals

Pipes and file descriptors

Jul 22, 2023176 views

IPC in Unix - part 2 · Pipes are a simple way to connect the output of one process to the input of the other one. You have probably used pipes at some...

Pipes and file descriptors

Named pipes (FIFOs)

Jul 23, 202348 views

IPC in Unix - part 3 · In the previous article we learned how to connect 2 processes using a pipe. Although interesting, that technique is limited...

Named pipes (FIFOs)

File locking

Jul 26, 202387 views

IPC in Unix - part 4 · We are continuing our journey through Unix IPC by looking at the concept of file locking. If you want to know how multiple...

File locking