Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:48:15 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> Cc: brhall@timing.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Craig Anderson <chanders@timing.com>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Help with passing fd on FreeBSD Message-ID: <XFMail.980830114815.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02A.9808292223260.19313-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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On 30-Aug-98 Alex Belits wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >> still, this looks to me one of the most obscure interfaces in the OS. >> Does any real application use that ? > > fhttpd uses it (and this is how mysterious kern/4345 was found). > If I remmeber right the portal file system uses it too. The user land process uses a socket to pass the open'd fd back into the kernel. Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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