Re: fd passing through sendmsg/recvmsg

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:37:17 +0000 (GMT)

> one more thing - if the file structures get copied around, how in the world
> does it work for processes passing fd's to themselves or forming a cycle?

Thats why there is a garbage collector for AF_UNIX sockets. Otherwise
the cycles problem would become a real issue

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