Guardicore announced the availability of IPCDump, a new open source tool for tracing interprocess communication on Linux.

So operating systems like Linux provide IPC — interprocess communications. Just like you make some parts of an object public, you can expose certain things in your program to other programs.

Named pipes aren't used all that often, but they provide some interesting options for inter-process communications.

Hey All, I've got an embedded Linux system (running a fairly recent 2.6.x Kernel) that we are developing some applications for. I'm trying to figure out a good way to get data between C ...

Quite a bit in UNIX programming has changed since then. The book begins with an introduction to UNIX and its variants, including Linux and FreeBSD. Subsequently, the book deals with I/O--file I/O and, ...

quote:A pipe is an interprocess communication mechanism available on both Windows and Linux (and UNIX). Pipes originally appeared in the Bell Laboratories version of UNIX and have remained in all ...

Developers using Microsoft's .NET Remoting API to facilitate interprocess communication now have a tool for building bi-directional network applications. Australia-based Amplefile is providing this ...