Unix IPC Question:
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What is IPC? What are the various schemes available?

Answer:

Inter Process Communication. IPC is used to pass information
between two or more processes.

Schemes are pipes, shared memory & semaphore.

Below are the different IPC methods

1. Semaphores
2. FIFO's (Also called Named Pipes)
3. Message Queues
4. Shared Memory

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