From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 29 07:44:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA01625 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 07:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA01619 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 07:44:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id OAA06042; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:46:42 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199808291246.OAA06042@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Help with passing fd on FreeBSD To: joelh@gnu.org Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:46:42 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: chanders@timing.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brhall@timing.com In-Reply-To: <199808290610.BAA01339@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Aug 29, 98 01:10:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >>> Can someone give me pointers on passing open file descriptors on ... > > 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). of course... is there anything that emacs does not use :) cheers (and sorry, i couldn't resist!) luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message