quartz/content/notes/17-processes-communication.md

title	aliases	tags
17-processes-communication		cosc204 lecture

cooperating processes

defn: coop process - execution of one process can affect the execution of another. e.e.g, processes for aprallel computing, threads for multithreading.

defn: independent process - one does not affect the other and they do not communicate etc

creating a child process

A child process is creating from a parent using fork. everything the same as the parent except the child has a differnent process ID.

communcation between parent and child

process create a chld process to do a task. but they need to communicate

signal and pipe for inter process communication