See also Remote Process Communication - Methods of communicating to remote processes. Remote Procedure Calls, sockets, data format translation, et al

See also: Process Creation and Control (starting and controlling child and peer processes)

See also: Process Signals and Events - Sending and handling signals and events.

See also: Program Environment Variables - Getting/ Setting program environment variables

Up to Communications

(Perl Interprocess Communication) Signals

(Perl Interprocess Communication) Named Pipes

(Perl Interprocess Communication) Using open() for IPC

(Perl Interprocess Communication) SysV IPC No qualified books.

See Also

How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?

Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?

How can I capture STDERR from an external command?

Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?

See Also

(Perl builtin function) msgctl ID,CMD,ARG Calls the System V IPC function msgctl(2).

(Perl builtin function) msgget KEY,FLAGS Calls the System V IPC function msgget(2).

(Perl builtin function) msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS Calls the System V IPC function msgsnd to send the message MSG to the message queue ID.

(Perl builtin function) msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS Calls the System V IPC function msgrcv to receive a message from message queue ID.

(Perl builtin function) pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE Opens a pair of connected pipes

(Perl builtin function) readpipe EXPR EXPR is interpolated and then executed as a system command.

(Perl builtin function) semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG Calls the System V IPC function semctl.

(Perl builtin function) semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS Calls the System V IPC function semget.

(Perl builtin function) semop KEY,OPSTRING Calls the System V IPC function semop to perform semaphore operations such as signaling and waiting.

(Perl builtin function) shmctl ID,CMD,ARG Calls the System V IPC function shmctl.

(Perl builtin function) shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS Calls the System V IPC function shmget. Returns the shared memory segment id, or the undefined value if there is an error.

(Perl builtin function) shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE Reads the System V shared memory segment ID starting at position POS for size SIZE by attaching to it, copying in/out, and detaching from it.

(Perl builtin function) socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL Creates an unnamed pair of sockets in the specified domain.

IPC::SysV - An alternate implementation of the Sys V IPC commands built into Perl. "Sys V IPC" is a commonly used means of interprocess communication -- if you have two processes on the same computer that need to exchange information, you probably want to use [Perl] {oss}

Parallel::PVM - The Parallel Virtual Machine message passing system. This module is an interface to the PVM library. [Perl] {oss}

Other Libraries, Functions, and Components