Inter Process Communication(IPC) Short Note A process can be of two type: Independent process. Co-operating process. An independent process is not affected by the execution of other processes while a co-operating process can be affected by other executing processes. Inter process communication (IPC) is a mechanism which allows processes to communicate each other and synchronize their actions. Processes can communicate with each other using these two ways: 1) Shared Memory 2) Message Passing - An operating system can implement both method of communication. - Communication between processes using shared memory requires processes to share some variable and it completely depends on how programmer will implement it. i) Shared Memory Method Ex: Producer-Consumer problem - There are two processes: Producer and Consumer. - Producer produces some item and Consumer consumes that item. - The two processes share...