Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:07:07 +0200 (CEST) | From | Simon Richter <> | Subject | Re: Question about I_SENDFD |
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Andrey G. Kaplanov wrote:
> For instance, following command writes transDsc descriptor to the > stream streamDsc. > int ret = ioctl(streamDsc, I_SENDFD, transDsc);
> On Red Hat Linux kernel 2.2.16 ret is -1, errno is 22 - Invalid argument.
Implementing this ioctl for Linux should be trivial as...
> That is here done not so, or be other ways of transmission of file > descriptor between processes?
... Unix sockets allow passing of fds as ancilliary data. See the unix(7) manpage for details.
Simon
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