| Shared memory would be two processes that can already do whatever they want communicating with each other. What is it that you think is a 'security nightmare' ? what a time bomb they are sitting on You didn't give any real evidence of this or examples. Shared memory works as a transport if you either assume that all parties are trusted (in which case why do IPC in the first place? Because you can have two or more different processes communicate asynchronously. They are in their own memory space and running on different threads. One doesn't crash the other. All they need to work together is data structures and data formats. Don't forget that files are the original IPC. Also, benchmarks are misleading. Saying something is wrong is easy when you don't have anything to show that it's wrong. that's probably not a good assumption for general usage Then don't do it. Shared memory can use atomics, it can be totally lock free. You each process do checks that are just atomically reading and integer. |