I was hoping to quickly get some IPC going by having one program write to a file using the ofstream class, and by having another read from that file using ifstream, but apparently that doesn't ...

Guardicore announced the availability of IPCDump, a new open source tool for tracing interprocess communication on Linux.

Named pipes aren't used all that often, but they provide some interesting options for inter-process communications.

So operating systems like Linux provide IPC — interprocess communications. Just like you make some parts of an object public, you can expose certain things in your program to other programs.

Quite a bit in UNIX programming has changed since then. The book begins with an introduction to UNIX and its variants, including Linux and FreeBSD. Subsequently, the book deals with I/O--file I/O and, ...