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/*!
\group ipc
\title Inter-Process Communication in Qt
\ingroup groups
\ingroup architecture
\brief Inter-Process communication in Qt applications.
Qt provides several ways to implement Inter-Process Communication
(IPC) in Qt applications.
\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 TCP/IP
The cross-platform \l{QtNetwork} module
provides classes that make network programming portable and
easy. It offers high-level classes (e.g., QHttp, 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 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.
*/
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