LocalProcedureCall

Last edit June 27, 2012
LPC - Local Procedure Call

LPC (LocalInterProcessCommunication and NOT Local Procedure Calls) is a high speed message based communication mechanism implemented in the NT kernel.

LPC is to be used for communication between two user mode processes.
  • between a user mode process and a
  • kernel mode driver
 or 
  • between two kernel mode drivers

An example
  • two user mode processes communicating via LPC