# Interprocess Communication API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/unix/interprocess-communication-api/  
**Provider:** UNIX System Call — https://apis.io/providers/unix/  
**Base URL:** system://unix/ipc  
**Documentation:** https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/pipe.7.html

Interprocess Communication API is one of 11 APIs that [UNIX System Call](https://apis.io/providers/unix/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include IPC, Pipes, Shared-Memory, Signals, and Sockets. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, code examples, a getting-started guide, and an API reference.

System calls for communication between processes including pipes, signals, and shared memory.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2_chap02.html
- **CodeExamples** — https://beej.us/guide/bgipc/
- **GettingStarted** — https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/
- **APIReference** — https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/pipe.7.html

## Other UNIX System Call APIs (10)

- [File System Operations API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/file-system-operations-api/)
- [Process Management API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/process-management-api/)
- [Memory Management API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/memory-management-api/)
- [System Information API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/system-information-api/)
- [POSIX Threads API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/posix-threads-api/)
- [I/O Multiplexing API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/io-multiplexing-api/)
- [POSIX Semaphores API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/posix-semaphores-api/)
- [POSIX Message Queues API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/posix-message-queues-api/)
- [Terminal and Device I/O API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/terminal-and-device-io-api/)
- [File Locking API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/file-locking-api/)

## Tags

IPC, Pipes, Shared-Memory, Signals, Sockets

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