System V IPC vs POSIX IPC

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1. What are the differences between System V IPC and POSIX IPC ?
2. Why do we have two standards ?
3. How to decide which IPC functions to use ?

ANS:

Both have the same basic tools -- semaphores, shared memory and message queues. They offer a slightly different interface to those tools, but the basic concepts are the same. One notable difference is that POSIX offers some notification features for message queues that Sys V does not. (See mq_notify().)

Sys V IPC has been around for longer which has a couple of practical implications --

First, POSIX IPC is less widely implemented. I wrote a Python wrapper for POSIX IPC and its documentation lists what I know about POSIX IPC implementations on various platforms.

On all of the platforms liste