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. 2011 Feb 25;12:61. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-61

Table 3.

PaPy's interprocess communication (IPC) methods

Method OS Remarks
socket all Communication, via TCP sockets, between hosts connected within a computer network

pipes Unix like Communication between processes on a single host

files all The file storage location must be accessible by all processes (e.g., over an NFS or Samba share).

PaPy provides the following direct IPC methods (see also Fig. 4), valid on operating systems as indicated.