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Mailslot
Mailslot is a one-way interprocess communication mechanism, available on the Microsoft Windows operating system that allows communication between processes locally. Mailslots also supported communication over a network. The use of Mailslots is generally simpler than named pipes or sockets when a relatively small number of relatively short messages is expected to be transmitted, such as for example infrequent state-change messages, or as part of a peer-discovery protocol. Up until Windows 11 24H2, the Mailslot mechanism also allowed for short message broadcasts ("datagrams") to all listening computers across a given network domain. The mechanism originated in LAN Manager, a component of OS/2, an operating system co-developed by IBM and Microsoft. Mailslots were discontinued in Windows 11 24H2.
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Mailslot is a one-way interprocess communication mechanism, available on the Microsoft Windows operating system that allows communication between processes locally. Mailslots also supported communication over a network. The use of Mailslots is generally simpler than named pipes or sockets when a relatively small number of relatively short messages is expected to be transmitted, such as for example infrequent state-change messages, or as part of a peer-discovery protocol. Up until Windows 11 24H2, the Mailslot mechanism also allowed for short message broadcasts ("datagrams") to all listening computers across a given network domain. The mechanism originated in LAN Manager, a component of OS/2, an operating system co-developed by IBM and Microsoft. Mailslots were discontinued in Windows 11 24H2.
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