Inter-Process Communication Synchronization

IPC Inter Process Communication, unbuffered and synchronous. Utilises blocking and timeout facilities. Short messages of 8-bytes can be implemented using registers alone. 

In the field of computer science, processes, concurrency, and interprocess communication are well understood [Dijkstra68, Hoare78, Andrews83]. The execution of a set of sequential statements is called a process, and the parallel execution of two or more processes is referred to as concurrent execution. The transfer of data between two processes is called inter-process communication, and insuring that inter-process communication takes place at a mutually-agreed-upon time is called synchronization. 

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