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    Well if you open 2 pipes, then you get bidi behavior too.
    – Pacerier
    Commented Feb 19, 2017 at 21:13
  • Absolutely dumb question but what is "shared memory"? I've messed around with shm_open but I need to notify a process that I have incoming work it needs to do - which I don't think that does. Is shared memory the same thing as a memory mapped file?
    – David Alsh
    Commented Feb 15 at 8:06