From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 28 23:15:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18544 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 23:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com ([208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18529 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 23:15:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-99.camalott.com [208.229.74.99]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA11963; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 01:13:09 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA01339; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 01:10:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 01:10:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808290610.BAA01339@detlev.UUCP> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it CC: chanders@timing.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brhall@timing.com In-reply-to: <199808281628.SAA05374@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> (message from Luigi Rizzo on Fri, 28 Aug 1998 18:28:36 +0200 (MET DST)) Subject: Re: Help with passing fd on FreeBSD From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199808281628.SAA05374@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> Can someone give me pointers on passing open file descriptors 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. > still, this looks to me one of the most obscure interfaces in the OS. > Does any real application use that ? Emacs will in the next release (20.4). Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message