How Do You Communicate Between Processes in Linux?
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How do you communicate between processes?

Here, are few important methods for interprocess communication:

  1. Pipes. Pipe is widely used for communication between two related processes. …
  2. Message Passing: It is a mechanism for a process to communicate and synchronize. …
  3. Message Queues: …
  4. Direct Communication: …
  5. Indirect Communication: …
  6. Shared Memory: …
  7. FIFO:

How do I pass messages between processes?

A simple way to communicate between process with multiprocessing is to use a Queue to pass messages back and forth. Any pickle-able object can pass through a Queue. This short example only passes a single message to a single worker, then the main process waits for the worker to finish.

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