Chapter 10
The IPC unit.

This chapter describes the IPC unit for Free Pascal. It was written for LINUX by Michaël Van Canneyt. It gives all the functionality of system V Inter-Process Communication: shared memory, semaphores and messages. It works only on the LINUX operating system.

The chapter is divided in 2 sections:

• The first section lists types, constants and variables from the interface part of the unit.
• The second section describes the functions defined in the unit.