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Date:      Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:34:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: descriptors and sockets and pipes, oh my
Message-ID:  <199611231834.NAA05663@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199611231802.NAA05597@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Bill Paul" at Nov 23, 96 01:02:10 pm

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> 
> Lastly, is it still possible to exchange file descriptors with the
> new pipe code in 2.2.x? The example in the book uses pipe(), but
> that's because pipes were really AF_UNIX sockets in disguise; this
> isn't true in FreeBSD 2.2.x anymore.
> 
No, sorry...  You can use socketpair(2), I think for that.  If there is
a great clammoring, I would be willing to fix it (probably a day or
so of work.)

John



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