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I don't know alot about inter process communication but I want to make a simulation of the bully algorithm using inter process communication and after searching i found that there are mechanisms to use IPC

Clipboard COM Data Copy DDE File Mapping Mailslots Pipes RPC Windows Sockets

I don't know which mechanism is the best for this case !

I will tell you my thoughts but it may be wrong :)

I exclude these :

File Mapping is for file sharing (which is far from our example) COM : used for compound documents (which we don't want) DDE : because it is usually initiated by user command and not efficient as newer technologies File Mapping : because there is no way to guarantee that a datagram has been received. ClipBoard : because is almost always used for a one-time response to a user command, such as choosing the Paste command from a menu.

so the remaining mechanisms are :

Data Copy

Pipes

RPC

WindowsSockets

so which is the best mechanism to use at these cases

1) if the communication is on the same computer 2) among different computers

Answer 1

If the requirement of running the processes in (a) same machine, as well as (b) different machine is important, then I would choose TCP/IP Internet sockets (AF_INET). It works in both situations and complexity is completely hidden from the application.

(Note that, if performance is the dominating metric, then I would choose differently for case #a.)