Optional IPC Services

The ChorusOS operating system offers the following optional IPC services:

• IPC_REMOTE

• Distributed IPC

IPC_REMOTE

When the IPC_REMOTE feature is set, IPC services are provided in a distributed, location-transparent way, allowing applications distributed across the different nodes, or sites, of a network to communicate as if they were collocated on the same node.

Without this feature, IPC services can only be used in a single site.

For details, see the IPC_REMOTE(5FEA) man page.

Distributed IPC

The distributed IPC option extends the functionality of local IPC to provide location-transparent communication between multiple, interconnected nodes.