Introduction to Processes and IPC
Understand what a process is in C and why processes require Interprocess Communication (IPC) to exchange data. Explore process isolation, memory protection, and the role of operating system mechanisms like pipes, shared memory, and signals in enabling secure and efficient communication between independent running programs.
So far in this course, we have worked with a single program at a time. Even when we introduced parallel programming, multiple threads executed within the same process and shared the same memory space. ...