| Updated: April 19, 2023 |
Our Send/Receive/Reply message-passing IPC services implement an implicit synchronization by their blocking nature. These IPC services can, in many instances, render other synchronization services unnecessary. They are also the only synchronization and IPC primitives (other than named semaphores, which are built on top of messaging) that can be used across the network.
For more information, see “Synchronous message passing” in the next chapter.