IPC Demos This repository demonstrates different IPC mechanisms in C and Python. It accompanies the series of articles on IPC over on my blog. The different IPC mechanisms are: Named Pipes: Article, code in C and Python. Unix Domain Sockets: Article, code in C and Python. Unix Signals: Article, code in C and Python. Message Queues: Article, code in C and Python. Shared Memory: Article, code in C and Python. Memory-Mapped Files: Article, code in C and Python.