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IPC under Win32

Win32 provides different means by which applications can communicate and share data between them. These mechanisms are called interprocess communications (IPC).

Applications using IPC can be classified as client or server. A client is a process (or application) that requests a service from some other process (or application). A server is a process (or application) that responds to the requests made by a client. An application can act both as client and server depending on the situation.

Following are few IPC mechanisms discussed here: