45INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEM V IPC
System V IPC is the label used to refer to three different mechanisms for interprocess communication:
• Message queues can be used to pass messages between processes. Message queues are somewhat like pipes, but differ in two important respects. First, message boundaries are preserved, so that readers and writers communicate in units of messages, rather than via an undelimited byte stream. Second, each message includes an integer type field, and it is possible to select messages by type, rather than reading them in the order in which they were written.
• Semaphores permit multiple processes to synchronize their actions. A semaphore is a kernel-maintained integer value that is visible to all processes that have the ...
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