Wrapper Facads of IPC in ACE

ACE wrappered a lot of IPC facilities provided by current mainstream OS, such as Unix/Linux, Win32, QNX etc.

I would like to categorize them into three based on application contexts, as

1. Communication for Client and Server

ACE_Socket

• Unix Socket
• TCP/IP Socket

ACE_SPIPE & ACE_UPIPE

• * ACE_UPIPE ( upipe the same address can be reused by two processes to listen on )
• Named Pipe ( on win32)
• SPIPE + Connld ( on Unix/Linux ), that is so called "Named SPIPE"

ACE_TLI

• This is another equivalence API to BSD socket

ACE_Mem

• Signal + MMAP ( on Unix/Linux )
• ....

2.  Communication for Cooperation Processes

2.1 Master drivern Slave process model

ACE_FIFO_Recv & ACE_FIFO_Send ( semiduplex )

ACE_Pipe ( full duplex )

• TCP socket ( for win32 )
• SPIPE ( for Unix/Linux platform has spipe support )
• socketpair ( for Unix/Linux platform without spipe support)

ACE_TTY_IO

• This shall only support on Linux/Unix ( ??? )

2.2 Concurrent co-working process model

ACE_Shared_Memory

• BSD's MMAP
• SVR4's SV_Shared_Memeory

SV_Semphore

SV_MessageQueue

3. Misc

File_IO

Signal

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From ACE_Pipe's implementation, we can see that, the most classical semiduplex un-named pipe is deprecated, as no wrapper for it at all. Because, this is replaced by full duplex pipe as ACE_Pipe