Name : Pallavi Sawanji

PRN : 2021000640
Roll No : B 63 Operating System
Interprocess Communication
➢ Approaches for Inter-Process Communication
 Interprocess Communication
Definition : -
➢ A system can have two types of
processes i.e. independent or
cooperating.
➢ Cooperating processes affect each
other and may share data and
information among themselves.
Pipes
1. It is a half-duplex method
(or one-way
communication) used for
IPC between two related
processes.
2. It is like a scenario like
filling the water with a tap
into a bucket.
3. The filling process is
writing into the pipe and
the reading process is
retrieved from the pipe.
IPC helps achieve these things : -
➢ Computational Speedup
➢ Modularity
➢ Information and data sharing
➢ Privilege separation
➢ Processes can communicate with each other and synchronize
their action.
Shared Memory Message Passing Message Queue
1. Multiple processes 1. In IPC, this is used by a 1. We have a linked list
can access a common process for communication to store messages in
shared memory. and synchronization. a kernel of OS and a
2. Multiple processes 2. Processes can message queue is
communicate by communicate without any identified using
shared memory, shared variables, therefore "message queue
where one process it can be used in a identifier".
makes changes at a distributed environment on
time and then others a network.
view the change. 3. It is slower than the shared
3. Shared memory does memory technique.
not use kernel. 4. It has two actions sending
(fixed size message) and
receiving messages.