IPC Mechanism on linux

There are many ways to implement communication between processes on linux.
We can get the information by using “man”.

man ipc
man 2 ipc
man 5 ipc
man 7 svipc


man 7 pipe
man 7 fifo          // named pipe
man 7 sem_overview  // semaphore
man 7 shm_overview  // share memory
man 7 mq_overview   // message queue

other technologies on linux:

man 2 ioctl            // ioctl
man 7 netlink          // netlink
man 7 unix             // unix socket(unix)