On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 14:32, David Korn wrote:
> The first problem is that files created with socketpair() are not accessible
> via /dev/fd/n or /proc/$$/fd/n where n is the file descriptor returned
> by socketpair(). Note that this is not a problem with pipe().
This is intentional - sockets do not have an "open" operation currently.
> The second problem is that if fchmod(fd,S_IWUSR) is applied to the write end
> of a pipe(), it causes the read() end to also be write only so that
> opening /dev/fd/n for read fails.
That doesn't directly suprise me. Our pipes are BSD style not streams
pipes. One thing that means is that the pipe itself is a single inode.
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