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RE: Passing File Descriptors
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "David E Euresti" <davie at MIT dot EDU>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:50:12 +1100
- Subject: RE: Passing File Descriptors
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David E Euresti [mailto:davie@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:44 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Passing File Descriptors
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I noticed there was some talk in January about passing
> file descriptors between processes. I'm in the process of
> porting a daemon to Windows and was wondering if there had
> been any progress made on this. By looking at the code I
> haven't seen any way of getting around passing the sockets
> from parents to child. And I can't use fork to do this unfortunately.
Right. Well the cygserver - a daemon for cygwin itself - is in the
latest development snapshots. That daemon would provide the basis for
copying fd's between process's, should you want to implement that in
cygwin.
Cheers,
Rob
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