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Advanced interprocess communication

These system calls support interprocess messages, semaphores, and shared memory and are effective in data base management. (These IPC mechanisms are also not applicable for processes on separate hosts.)

Advanced interprocess communication functions

msgget get message queue
msgctl message control operations
msgop message operations
semget get set of semaphores
semctl semaphore control operations
semop semaphore operations
shmget get shared memory segment identifier
shmctl shared memory control operations
shmop shared memory operations


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