alt Hacker NewsIt actually kind of is, hence why you have information about parent/child and get to share memory.
This is how a http server back in the day would share the request context for the child process to reply back.
It actually kind of is, hence why you have information about parent/child and get to share memory.
This is how a http server back in the day would share the request context for the child process to reply back.
I would say that pipes and shared memory are the IPC mechanisms? Controlling the state of the exec'd process's file descriptors would counts as a way to set up interprocess communication, but once that's done, it's the pipe or SHM that does the actual communication.