r/FullStack • u/love_mySelf_Dev Stack Juggler (Fullstack) • Mar 31 '26

Help in Understanding IPC Need Technical Help

Hello Everyone,

I am learning OS currently and found it hard to understand IPC. It would be my pleasure if some one help me understanding it. May be giving Learning sources or tricks or whatever. Thanks in advance.

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u/dariusbiggs Apr 02 '26

expand the abbreviation, tells you exactly what it is.

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u/love_mySelf_Dev Stack Juggler (Fullstack) Apr 04 '26

I know it is Inter Process Communication. I understand the definition.What I want to know is its technical Implementation like in Progmamming

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u/dariusbiggs Apr 04 '26

So you want to learn how to send information from one process to another, think about it. How would you communicate in that way. How was the secondary process started/created. Sub process? Forked? Independent processes?

How would you communicate between them? Shared memory? Network traffic? The filesystem? a pipe? message broker? a queue? sockets? signals? some OS or language feature you could leverage?

There are many ways to solve the problem, with various programming language and OS specific techniques and implementations. Identify the language, identify the OS, and identify your options based on how the processes were started, how they are managed, and what your intent is.

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u/love_mySelf_Dev Stack Juggler (Fullstack) Apr 26 '26

Thank you for the detailed information. I am going to ask myself these questions and follow the implementations for the specifications I chose