Friday, September 17, 2010

How does a parent and the child process communicate?

A parent and child can communicate through any of the normal
inter-process communication schemes (pipes, sockets, message queues,
shared memory), but also have some special ways to communicate that take
advantage of their relationship as a parent and child.

One of the most obvious is that the parent can get the exit status of
the child through waitpid() call.

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