📧 Interprocess Communication

• Estimated duration: 1 h 30

🎯 Learning Objective

• Learn independently using the official Microsoft documentation and others.
• Understand interprocess communication (IPC) mechanisms on Windows and Linux/WSL.

📜 Statement

Part 1: Introduction Video

Watch the following video for an introduction to interprocess communication (IPC) mechanisms: IPC: To Share Memory Or To Send Messages

Part 2: Readings

Tutorials

• tutorialspoint

Windows

• English
• French

Notably the section on pipes and Windows Sockets.

Linux / WSL (POSIX IPC)

• https://tldp.org/LDP/tlk/ipc/ipc.html

Part 3: Practices

Python provides several modules for interprocess communication (IPC).

The documentation for the Socket module provides examples. Run each of the examples and analyze the code to understand how interprocess communication works in Python.

tip

Unlike the example in the documentation, you will not communicate with daring.cwi.nl. What is your local IP address ... 127.?.?.? 🤔