Interprocess

Interprocess communication toolkit for Rust programs. The crate aims to expose as many platform-specific features as possible while maintaining a uniform interface for all platforms.

Features

The following interprocess communication primitives are implemented:

• Unnamed pipes — anonymous file-like objects for communicating privately in one direction, most commonly used to communicate between a child process and its parent
• FIFO files — Unix-specific type of file which is similar to unnamed pipes but exists on the filesystem, often referred to as "named pipes" but completely different from Windows named pipes
• Unix domain sockets — Unix-specific socket type which is extremely similar to normal network sockets but uses filesystem paths instead, with the optional Linux feature allowing them to use a spearate namespace akin to Windows named pipes
• Windows named pipes — Windows-specific named pipe interface closely resembling Unix domain sockets
• Local sockets — platform independent interface utilizing named pipes on Windows and Unix domain sockets on Unix
• Mailslots — Windows-specific interprocess communication primitive for short messages, potentially even across the network