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IPDL is the "Inter-*-communication Protocol Definition Language", where "*" includes "process" and "thread". [https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/ipc/ipdl.html Firefox-source-docs on IPDL].

WARNING: These wiki articles are extremely old, so they may not be accurate.

== Reference ==

The [[IPDL/Getting started]] guide intends to be somewhat verbose and gentle introduction to the IPDL.

The [[IPDL/Five minute example]] shows examples of what C++ code you need to implement to make IPDL "work."  Before reading this, you should be somewhat familiar with the IPDL (or good at learning by example.)

The [[IPDL/Low level setup]] walks you through setting up the support infrastructure (processes, threads, and sockets) that IPDL needs to send messages.  Few people should need to read this.

Another [https://web.archive.org/web/20210530025304/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/IPDL/Tutorial IPDL tutorial] (MDN) that provides with some more information about IPDL protocols.

[[IPDL/Shmem]].

'''ON HOLD''' Proposal for [[IPDL/Proposal:Shmem_access_control|fine-grained shmem access control]]

== Other projects ==

* [[IPDL/Unit test generation]]: use IPDL specifications to generate unit tests that "extensively" explore the protocol-level interaction of two (or more) actors.  The unit tests are intended to check the C++ implementation(s) of the actor interfaces.