A mailslot client can send a message to a mailslot on its local computer, to a mailslot on another computer, or to all mailslots with the same name on all computers in a specified network domain.
Messages broadcast to all mailslots on a domain can be no longer than bytes, whereas messages sent to a single mailslot are limited only by the maximum message size specified by the mailslot server when it created the mailslot. Key Point: Mailslots offer an easy way for applications to send and receive short messages. They also provide the ability to broadcast messages across all computers in a network domain. For more information, see Mailslots. There are two types of pipes for two-way communication: anonymous pipes and named pipes.
Anonymous pipes enable related processes to transfer information to each other. Typically, an anonymous pipe is used for redirecting the standard input or output of a child process so that it can exchange data with its parent process.
To exchange data in both directions duplex operation , you must create two anonymous pipes. The parent process writes data to one pipe using its write handle, while the child process reads the data from that pipe using its read handle. Similarly, the child process writes data to the other pipe and the parent process reads from it. Anonymous pipes cannot be used over a network, nor can they be used between unrelated processes.
Named pipes are used to transfer data between processes that are not related processes and between processes on different computers. Typically, a named-pipe server process creates a named pipe with a well-known name or a name that is to be communicated to its clients. A named-pipe client process that knows the name of the pipe can open its other end, subject to access restrictions specified by named-pipe server process.
After both the server and client have connected to the pipe, they can exchange data by performing read and write operations on the pipe. Key Point: Anonymous pipes provide an efficient way to redirect standard input or output to child processes on the same computer. Named pipes provide a simple programming interface for transferring data between two processes, whether they reside on the same computer or over a network. For more information, see Pipes. RPC enables applications to call functions remotely.
RPC operates between processes on a single computer or on different computers on a network. This means that applications that use RPC are able to communicate with applications running with other operating systems that support DCE. RPC automatically supports data conversion to account for different hardware architectures and for byte-ordering between dissimilar environments. RPC clients and servers are tightly coupled but still maintain high performance.
Key Point: RPC is a function-level interface, with support for automatic data conversion and for communications with other operating systems. Using RPC, you can create high-performance, tightly coupled distributed applications. As far as I know "Named Pipes" usually appears as files in file systems. Could "IPC using files" be just one process writing a file and another process reading it. These are all "IPC using files".
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The socket is the endpoint for sending or receiving data in a network. This is true for data sent between processes on the same computer or data sent between different computers on the same network.
Most of the operating systems use sockets for interprocess communication. A file is a data record that may be stored on a disk or acquired on demand by a file server. Multiple processes can access a file as required. All operating systems use files for data storage.
Signals are useful in interprocess communication in a limited way. You need to be careful here, "socket" to most people means an IP connection of some sort. Just like pipes, they can be named or unnamed. Unlike pipes, they're bidirectional. Okay, thanks for the clarification I was actually confused about this. I looked it up now after to clarified the distinction.
So do these unix domain sockets act like files in the sense that once a process creates them they stay in the filesystem until the process closes them and I can examine them with regular text editors, or do cat on them do display them or write to them.
Or are there some kind of restriction on this? I was trying too google to see if there are any unix commands that will create domain sockets and let you manipulate them with regular unix commands that manipulate files. If you want the socket to go away, you have to unlink it[1].
Note that once the connecton is established, you can unlink the socket and the kernel will automatically destory it once everyone closes it. They can also be unnamed and not exist in the filesystem at all. If you're only doing IPC with children, this is the route to go, and socketpair helps ease this. I don't believe so.
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