CAN YOU SUGGEST A BOOK ON IPC IN RESPECTTO THE C LANGUAGE?

[guy at gorodish.UUCP]

>	I need a "good" book that covers inter-process-communication (ipc)
>within the C programming language.  Any suggestions where I might purchase
>such a book?

Yes.  You probably can't find it anywhere.  The C language and its
standard libraries include no support whatsoever for interprocess
communication.  That is left up to the operating system and its
libraries.

If you're going to do this work under UNIX, grab one of the UNIX
books out there; find out what IPC facilities - S5-style shared
memory, what would have been 4.2BSD style shared memory had they
implemented "mmap" (which some vendors have done or will do),
sockets using some particular protocol family, streams/TLI
implementations of some protocol family, S5-style messages, named
pipes, a shared file, etc. - your system provides, and find a book
that discusses them.  If you're going to this work under VMS, find a
VMS book, etc.