3.5 Communication channels
Communication channels are used to exchange information between two programs which run at
the same time (unlike
environment variables and
keywords
used to exchange information between programs running one after the other).
In practice communication channels are reserved for client-server communication, used
seldom, mainly in the area of
graphics
Communication channels are implemented in Unix as named pipes and in VMS as mailboxes, and their
usage is normally transparent to the user.
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