From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 30 7:45:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f314.hotmail.com [207.82.251.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 021B61572B for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:45:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gupz@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 40824 invoked by uid 0); 30 Aug 1999 14:43:52 -0000 Message-ID: <19990830144352.40823.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 161.44.52.23 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:43:52 PDT X-Originating-IP: [161.44.52.23] From: "Dodge Ram" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Sharing file descriptors Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:43:52 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Have a question on whether it is possible to share file descriptors between two processes. The purpose is to have a stanby process take over when the primary process fails. The primary process creates/deletes socket connections at run time. Forking does not scale well when the rate of connection creates/deletes in high. If there is an alternative approach to do this kindly let me know. Any helpful pointers are greatly appreciated. thanks and regards, ramesh ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message