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Interprocess Communication (IPC)

Asynchronous Callbacks

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Practice questions on the async-request-with-callback pattern: two async messages, one in each direction, chaining a request to its eventual result without blocking.

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01Implement an Asynchronous Callback02If You Send a Message Asynchronously, How Can You Verify the Other Process Received It?
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