Perl programming on MPE/iX - April 2002

Solution Symposium Page 29April 4, 2002
interprocess communications
• POSIX signals between related processes
• named pipes between unrelated processes
• create named pipes with POSIX mkfifo command
• unnamed pipes to child processes
• create using Perl open() function with "|"
• Internet-domain TCP and UDP sockets
• Unix-domain stream sockets
• SysV IPC - shared memory, semaphores, messages