Re: [BUG] Passing FDs over pipes

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Fri, 15 May 1998 08:18:22 +1200

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On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 07:52:47PM -0700, Alex Belits wrote:
> > AFAIK sendmsg is only defined to work for pipes.
>
> sendmsg must work over sockets -- this is how BSD fd passing is done.

Bugger, yeah - s/pipes/sockets/ that line of my message (I think its still
clear what I mean? The man pages say "send a message from a socket" anyhow).

-Chris

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