From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 24 21:45:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA07783 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 24 May 1997 21:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (joelh@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA07778 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 21:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id AAA28285; Sun, 25 May 1997 00:45:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 00:45:44 -0400 Message-Id: <199705250445.AAA28285@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Sending file descriptors over AF_UNIX sockets From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I understand that it is possible to send an open file descriptor over an AF_UNIX datagram socket. I've been looking over the source for leads as to how this might be done; anybody care to help me? Thanks, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped