> short question: does linux do filehandle passing like any of the
> examples in stevens "advanced unix programming" ? (he describes how
> it's done on sys v and bsd, methinks)
It does.
Think of Stevens' books as describing the sysv and bsd APIs, rather
than the features provided by the sysv and bsd implementations of those
APIs, and you will get a better picture of how Linux fits in with that
book.
Matthew.
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