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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: IPC mechanisms in UNIXen (Re: OS/2 versus UNIX)
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <1089@stewart.UUCP> <1991May15.110459.21996@sugar.hackercorp.com> <7913@auspex.auspex.com> <1991May21.001903.18598@kithrup.COM>
Date: Mon, 20 May 91 18:08:57 GMT

> >	FIFOs (I'd call them "named pipes", but I don't want to confuse
> >	the OS/2oids in the audience)
> >	sockets of various flavors
> >	S5 message queues
> >	S5 shared memory
> Semaphores (xenix and SVID), and xenix shared memory.
Plus, various RPC methods, plain pipes and PTYs.
And Mach messages.
Luckily nobody still uses multiplexed files (remember them?).
-- 
Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180;
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012;         `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"