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+/****************************************************************************
+**
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+
+/*!
+ \page ipc.html
+ \title Inter-Process Communication in Qt
+ \brief Inter-Process communication in Qt applications.
+
+ \ingroup frameworks-technologies
+
+ Qt provides several ways to implement Inter-Process Communication
+ (IPC) in Qt applications.
+
+ \section1 TCP/IP
+
+ The cross-platform \l{QtNetwork} module provides classes that make
+ network programming portable and easy. It offers high-level
+ classes (e.g., QNetworkAccessManager, QFtp) that communicate using
+ specific application-level protocols, and lower-level classes
+ (e.g., QTcpSocket, QTcpServer, QSslSocket) for implementing
+ protocols.
+
+ \section1 Shared Memory
+
+ The cross-platform shared memory class, QSharedMemory, provides
+ access to the operating system's shared memory implementation.
+ It allows safe access to shared memory segments by multiple threads
+ and processes. Additionally, QSystemSemaphore can be used to control
+ access to resources shared by the system, as well as to communicate
+ between processes.
+
+ \section1 D-Bus
+
+ The \l{QtDBus} module is a Unix-only library
+ you can use to implement IPC using the D-Bus protocol. It extends
+ Qt's \l{signalsandslots.html} {Signals and Slots} mechanism to the
+ IPC level, allowing a signal emitted by one process to be
+ connected to a slot in another process. This \l {Introduction to
+ D-Bus} page has detailed information on how to use the \l{QtDBus}
+ module.
+
+ \section1 Qt COmmunications Protocol (QCOP)
+
+ The QCopChannel class implements a protocol for transferring messages
+ between client processes across named channels. QCopChannel is
+ only available in \l{Qt for Embedded Linux}. Like the \l{QtDBus}
+ module, QCOP extends Qt's \l{Signals and Slots} mechanism to the
+ IPC level, allowing a signal emitted by one process to be
+ connected to a slot in another process, but unlike QtDBus, QCOP
+ does not depend on a third party library.
+*/