n indirect message passing model of IPC, a mailbox can be held in the process address space (or in the kernel). Similarly, in shared-memory model, a shared-memory region resides in the address space of the process. Considering both the facts (that both use process address space), what’s the difference between the indirect message passing and shared memory models?

n indirect message passing model of IPC, a mailbox can be held in the process address space (or in the kernel). Similarly, in shared-memory model, a shared-memory region resides in the address space of the process. Considering both the facts (that both use process address space), what’s the difference between the indirect message passing and shared memory models?

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