Beej's Guide to Unix IPC
\1. Intro
1.1. Audience
1.3. Official Homepage
1.4. Email Policy
1.5. Mirroring
1.6. Note for Translators
1.7. Copyright and Distribution
\2. A fork() Primer
2.1. "Seek ye the Gorge of Eternal Peril"
2.2. "I'm mentally prepared! Give me The Button!"
2.3. Summary
\3. Signals
3.1. Catching Signals for Fun and Profit!
3.2. The Handler is not Omnipotent
3.3. What about signal()
3.4. Some signals to make you popular
\4. Pipes
4.2. fork() and pipe()—you have the power!
4.3. The search for Pipe as we know it
4.4. Summary
\5. FIFOs
5.1. A New FIFO is Born
5.3. O_NDELAY! I'm UNSTOPPABLE!
5.4. Concluding Notes
\6. File Locking
6.1. Setting a lock
6.2. Clearing a lock
6.3. A demo program
6.4. Summary
\7. Message Queues
7.1. Where's my queue?
7.2. "Are you the Key Master?"
7.3. Sending to the queue
7.5. Destroying a message queue
7.7. Summary
\8. Semaphores
8.2. Controlling your semaphores with semctl()
8.5. Sample programs
8.6. Summary
9.1. Creating the segment and connecting
9.2. Attach me—getting a pointer to the segment
9.3. Reading and Writing
9.4. Detaching from and deleting segments
9.5. Concurrency
9.6. Sample code
\10. Memory Mapped Files
10.1. Mapmaker
10.2. Unmapping the file
10.3. Concurrency, again?!
10.4. A simple sample
10.5. Summary
\11. Unix Sockets
11.1. Overview
11.2. What to do to be a Server
11.3. What to do to be a client
11.4. socketpair()—quick full-duplex pipes
\12. More IPC Resources
12.1. Books
12.2. Other online documentation
12.3. Linux man pages