From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 29 21:17:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08537 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 21:17:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08529 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 21:17:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-89.camalott.com [208.229.74.89]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA26084; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 23:14:37 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA06019; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 23:12:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 23:12:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808300412.XAA06019@detlev.UUCP> To: dirk.vangulik@jrc.it CC: chanders@timing.com, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Dirk-Willem van Gulik on Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:29:10 +0200 (CEST)) Subject: Re: Help with passing fd on FreeBSD From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I struggeled with the same, in particular as the most recent book of > Stevens uses the API as described in RFC2292. And two of the macro's > are not quite part of socket.h. (why is this actually?) Well, my best guess is that the RFC (entitled "Advanced Sockets API for IPv6") is based on IPv6, which we have not integrated into -current. (What's the story on that, anyway?) The feature I thought you were referring to is passing an fd through a local domain socket, not an inet socket. To the best of my knowledge, BSD does not support the latter operation. (It would be nontrivial.) 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