Inter-process Communication - Main IPC Methods

Main IPC Methods

Method Provided by (operating systems or other environments)
File Most operating systems
Signal Most operating systems; some systems, such as Windows, implement signals in only the C run-time library and provide no support for their use as an IPC method
Socket Most operating systems
Message queue Most operating systems
Pipe All POSIX systems, Windows
Named pipe All POSIX systems, Windows
Semaphore All POSIX systems, Windows
Shared memory All POSIX systems, Windows
Message passing
(shared nothing)		 Used in MPI paradigm, Java RMI, CORBA, MSMQ, MailSlots, QNX, others
Memory-mapped file All POSIX systems, Windows

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