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What are the differences in processes sharing variables, memory pages or files? Is one safer than another?

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Which programming language are you talking about?

You're probably looking for IPC (Inter-Process Communication). If you want your program to share information with another you could use pipe().

About memory pages, the kernel handles paging for you.

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