Interprocess communication: Shared memory

In this article we give an introduction to interprocess communication in Linux and discuss how processes use shared memory to communicate with each other.

Table of contents.Introduction.Shared memory.Conclusion.Summary.References.Prerequisites.Linux threadsLinux processes.Introduction.

IPC(Interprocess communication) is the transfer of data between processes. For example the command,

cat hosts.txt | xargs -n1 ping -c 2

will start the concatenation process as well as the ping proces...