Re: [malware-list] scanner interface proposal was: [TALPA] Intro toa linux interface for on access scanning

[Alan Cox]

> Also not knowing much about sending FD's over AF_UNIX sockets, do they
> share the same seek offsets or does the new process get a new fd which

They share the seek offset.

> points to the same data?  I wouldn't want to have to count on the
> indexer to not move the offset around on the bittorrent client.  Like I
> said, haven't never used sendmsg to pass a socket I don't know what you
> get on the other end.

man pread(). The posix committee long ago figured out that you needed a
sane way not to get involved with offsets even between processes or in
threaded apps.

Alan
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