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+.\"	@(#)1.t	8.1 (Berkeley) 8/14/93
+.\"
+.\".ds LH "4.4BSD IPC Primer
+.\".ds RH Introduction
+.\".ds RF "Leffler/Fabry/Joy
+.\".ds LF "\*(DY
+.\".ds CF "
+.nr H1 1
+.LP
+.bp
+.LG
+.B
+.ce
+1. INTRODUCTION
+.sp 2
+.R
+.NL
+One of the most important additions to UNIX in 4.2BSD was interprocess
+communication.
+These facilities were the result of
+more than two years of discussion and research.  The facilities
+provided in 4.2BSD incorporated many of the ideas from current
+research, while trying to maintain the UNIX philosophy of
+simplicity and conciseness.
+The 4.3BSD release of Berkeley UNIX
+improved upon some of the IPC facilities
+while providing an upward-compatible interface.
+4.4BSD adds support for ISO protocols and IP multicasting.
+The BSD interprocess communication
+facilities have become a defacto standard for UNIX.
+.PP
+UNIX has previously been very weak in the area of interprocess
+communication.  Prior to the 4BSD facilities, the only
+standard mechanism which allowed two processes to communicate were
+pipes (the mpx files which were part of Version 7 were
+experimental).  Unfortunately, pipes are very restrictive
+in that
+the two communicating processes must be related through a
+common ancestor.
+Further, the semantics of pipes makes them almost impossible
+to maintain in a distributed environment. 
+.PP
+Earlier attempts at extending the IPC facilities of UNIX have
+met with mixed reaction.  The majority of the problems have
+been related to the fact that these facilities have been tied to
+the UNIX file system, either through naming or implementation.
+Consequently, the IPC facilities provided in 4.2BSD were
+designed as a totally independent subsystem.  The BSD IPC
+allows processes to rendezvous in many ways. 
+Processes may rendezvous through a UNIX file system-like
+name space (a space where all names are path names)
+as well as through a
+network name space.  In fact, new name spaces may
+be added at a future time with only minor changes visible
+to users.  Further, the communication facilities 
+have been extended to include more than the simple byte stream
+provided by a pipe.  These extensions have resulted
+in a completely new part of the system which users will need
+time to familiarize themselves with.  It is likely that as
+more use is made of these facilities they will be refined;
+only time will tell.
+.PP
+This document provides a high-level description
+of the IPC facilities in 4.4BSD and their use.
+It is designed to complement the manual pages for the IPC primitives
+by examples of their use.
+The remainder of this document is organized in four sections.  
+Section 2 introduces the IPC-related system calls and the basic model
+of communication.  Section 3 describes some of the supporting
+library routines users may find useful in constructing distributed
+applications.  Section 4 is concerned with the client/server model
+used in developing applications and includes examples of the
+two major types of servers.  Section 5 delves into advanced topics
+which sophisticated users are likely to encounter when using
+the IPC facilities.