MailSlot
ONE-WAY IPC MECHANISM ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS, AVAILABLE BOTH LOCALLY AND REMOTELY, THAT SENDS SHORT MESSAGE BROADCASTS TO ALL LISTENING COMPUTERS ACROSS A GIVEN NETWORK DOMAIN
Mailslot
A Mailslot is a one-way interprocess communication mechanism, available on the Microsoft Windows operating system, that allows communication between processes both locally and over a network. The use of Mailslots is generally simpler than named pipes or sockets when a relatively small number of relatively short messages are expected to be transmitted, such as for example infrequent state-change messages, or as part of a peer-discovery protocol.