Distributed Computing and Object Systems

Interprocess Communications

At their root, all IPC systems contain:

Send:
Receive:
Connect: for connection-oriented systems, TCP requires connection. UDP does not.
Disconnect:

These have to be properly interleaved or they could lead to a lot of synchronization problems.
You use either synchronous (blocking) operations or asynchronous (nonblocking) operations.

José M. Vidal .

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