Editing Inter-process communication (section)

=== Operating system communication stack ===
The following are platform or programming language-specific APIs:
{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
* [[Apple Computer]]'s [[Apple events]], previously known as Interapplication Communications (IAC)
* [[ARexx]] ports
* [[ENEA AB|Enea's]] [[LINX (IPC)|LINX]] for Linux (open source) and various DSP and general-purpose processors under [[Operating System Embedded|OSE]]
* The [[Mach kernel]]'s Mach Ports
* [[Microsoft]]'s [[ActiveX]], [[Component Object Model]] (COM), [[Microsoft Transaction Server]] ([[COM+]]), [[Distributed Component Object Model]] (DCOM), [[Dynamic Data Exchange]] (DDE), [[Object Linking and Embedding]] (OLE), [[Anonymous pipe#Microsoft Windows|anonymous pipes]], [[Named pipe#Named pipes in Windows|named pipes]], [[Local Procedure Call]], [[MailSlot]]s, [[Message loop in Microsoft Windows|Message loop]], [[MSRPC]], [[.NET Remoting]], and [[Windows Communication Foundation]] (WCF)
* [[Novell]]'s [[IPX/SPX|SPX]]
* [[POSIX]] [[mmap]], [[message queue]]s, [[semaphore (programming)|semaphores]],<ref>"[http://www.tldp.org/pub/Linux/docs/ldp-archived/linuxfocus/English/Archives/lf-2003_01-0281.pdf Concurrent programming - communication between processes]"</ref> and [[Shared memory (interprocess communication)|shared memory]]
* [[RISC OS]]'s messages
* [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]] [[Doors (computing)|Doors]]
* [[System V]]'s message queues, semaphores, and shared memory
* [[Transparent Inter-process Communication|Linux Transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC)]]
* [[OpenBinder]] Open binder
* [[QNX]]'s PPS (Persistent Publish/Subscribe) service
{{div col end}}