Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:15:22 +0000 From: Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, chanders@timing.com (Craig Anderson) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brhall@timing.com Subject: Re: Help with passing fd on FreeBSD Message-ID: <199808282115.WAA01126@indigo.ie> In-Reply-To: <199808281628.SAA05374@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Aug 28, 6:28pm, Luigi Rizzo wrote: } Subject: Re: Help with passing fd on FreeBSD > > Oops, I turned the page and the BSD4.3+ example looks like the FreeBSD > > struct. The Stevens book appears to have a good example. > > > > > Can someone give me pointers on passing open file descriptors on FreeBSD? > > still, this looks to me one of the most obscure interfaces in the OS. > Does any real application use that ? I can imagine several uses for it, one of the most useful being a centralised authentication daemon which passes out raw sockets, sockets < 1024 etc to appropriately authorised processes. fhttpd also uses it a lot. Niall -- Niall Smart, rotel@indigo.ie. Amaze your friends and annoy your enemies: echo '#define if(x) if (!(x))' >> /usr/include/stdio.h To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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