Is it possible to have Perl scripts directly message one another, and if so, how is this done?

Have Perl scripts that are messaging each other via a database, but wondering if there's a way to have them talk to each other directly -- and if so, how? If it matters, both th开发者_如何学Pythonese scripts are running on one server, and one could start the other.

UPDATE: Related questions -- " ipc + perl " tagged questions.

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In general the whole topic can be summed up under the long-standing UNIX topic of IPC: Inter-process Communication.

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How about a named pipe?