Re: [BUG] Passing FDs over pipes

Paul Flinders (paul@dawa.demon.co.uk)
14 May 1998 19:19:23 +0100

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miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
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> socketpair()

AFAIR Solaris and IRIX "pipes" are actually implemented as a call to
socketpair() which is probably why you can pass FDs over them.

-- Paul

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