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para · Dec 26th, 2005, 8:06 PM

Interprocess communication can be achieved with pipes ( http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node23.html ). Basically a pipe is a buffer managed by the operating system, you can read from it and write to it. Each operation (read/write) has an associated file descriptor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipes_and_filters
http://www.tin.org/bin/man.cgi?section=2&topic=pipe

Dec 26th, 2005, 8:06 PM	#7
para Programmer Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 65 Rep Power: 3	Interprocess communication can be achieved with pipes ( http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node23.html ). Basically a pipe is a buffer managed by the operating system, you can read from it and write to it. Each operation (read/write) has an associated file descriptor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipes_and_filters http://www.tin.org/bin/man.cgi?section=2&topic=pipe