ipc – Interprocess Communication

Introduction

The IPC module offers an interface to the various forms of interprocess communication available under windows: mailslots, events, named pipes, mutexes, sempahores and waitable timers. At least, that’s the plan. At the time of writing, only mailslots and events are in there. But the rest are definitely on the way.

Functions

Factories

Helpers

Classes

• The Mailslot class
• The Event class
• The Mutex class
• The Pipe classes

Constants

Exceptions

References

See also

Synchronisation

Documentation on microsoft.com for synchronisation objects

Using the ipc module

Cookbook examples of using the ipc module

To Do

• Named Pipes
• Waitable Timers
• Waits