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Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2000 11:07:39 +0000
From:	Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Draft patch for opendir() extension
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Richard Dawe wrote:
> > Both TCP/IP sockets and Unix domain sockets could be passed to child
> > programs (using some variant of the proxy method used to pass long
> > command-lines?), with some mechanism to resurrect libsocket's internal
> > data structures.
> 
> If sockets are private to programs that use them, then passing them
> to child programs doesn't make much sense, does it?

You could emulate the Internet server inetd by accepting a connection and
then starting a server program, say ftpd, in the *same* DOS box. This
child server would then do the actual work, using the socket created by
the parent program.

Passing sockets across DOS boxes is a very tricky problem.

The passing of sockets to other programs makes a lot more sense when you
can fork() to your hearts content. With DJGPP we'd have to be able to pass
sockets across DOS boxes, to make passing sockets useful.

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe
[ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]
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