Tag
ipc
- Oct 8, 2026 Binder IPC: Parcels, Handles, and One-Way Calls How a single-copy parcel transfer works, what a binder handle actually names, and why one-way calls have ordering guarantees but no completion signal. mobile computing
- Jan 26, 2024 Pipe Buffers, PIPE_BUF, and the Absence of Message Boundaries Why a pipe is an uninterpreted byte stream with a fixed kernel buffer, what the atomicity guarantee for small writes actually covers, and how writers detect the reader is gone. computing history
- Mar 10, 2022 What a Pipe Holds: Kernel Buffering, Atomic Writes, and SIGPIPE The pipe as a bounded in-kernel queue, why writes below PIPE_BUF never interleave, and how a closed read end turns into a signal rather than an error. developer tools