Re: fd passing.
Roger Espel Llima (espel@llaic.u-clermont1.fr)
Thu, 14 May 1998 13:42:32 +0200
> Because what I am doing is forking and execing a process which is used
> as a data filter. The stdout of the data filter is read by the
> launching programme. The data filter wants to pass a FD "back" to the
> launcher. Creating a Unix socket would be quite messy in this context.
Try using a socketpair() ... not that I've tested if that works, but if
it works over sockets, well, socketpair() creates sockets after all.
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Roger Espel Llima, espel@llaic.u-clermont1.fr
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