From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 30 04:32:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA15447 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 04:32:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA15415 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 04:31:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from (ragnet.demon.co.uk) [158.152.46.40] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zD5ge-0007Cy-00; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:30:25 +0000 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0zD51s-00068x-00; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:48:16 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:48:15 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay To: Alex Belits Subject: Re: Help with passing fd on FreeBSD Cc: brhall@timing.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Craig Anderson , Luigi Rizzo Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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