Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: RE: Passing File Descriptors X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:50:12 +1100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Passing File Descriptors Thread-Index: AcHLqbkZ9YJNrEZJT0SAlQsdG3xx6AACSbaQ From: "Robert Collins" To: "David E Euresti" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g2ENolk12888 > -----Original Message----- > From: David E Euresti [mailto:davie@MIT.EDU] > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:44 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Passing File Descriptors > > > Hello, > > I noticed there was some talk in January about passing > file descriptors between processes. I'm in the process of > porting a daemon to Windows and was wondering if there had > been any progress made on this. By looking at the code I > haven't seen any way of getting around passing the sockets > from parents to child. And I can't use fork to do this unfortunately. Right. Well the cygserver - a daemon for cygwin itself - is in the latest development snapshots. That daemon would provide the basis for copying fd's between process's, should you want to implement that in cygwin. Cheers, Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/