Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: [BUG] Passing FDs over pipes | Date | 14 May 1998 11:27:03 +0200 |
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In article <199805140750.RAA11005@vindaloo.atnf.CSIRO.AU>, Richard Gooch <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> wrote: >David S. Miller writes: >> Use UNIX sockets then, just like everybody else who needs to pass FD's >> around over a connection endpoint between two UNIX processes. Whats >> so wrong with that? > >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.
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