Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Theo Verelst Subject: Re: Passing file descriptors Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:59:23 +0100 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <20040104172503.GA7770@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) In-Reply-To: <20040104172503.GA7770@redhat.com> Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Theo Verelst wrote: > >>Anyone know wether cygwin can pass file descriptors over unix sockets >>(streams) so that a process can share its file descriptors with >>another? > > > Nope. Sorry. > -- Is it not an option because of windows streams not supporting it, or because of lack of interest or otherwise? It is a feature of regular unix, I think sys5, I've not checked wether Linux has it, but there must be programs that use it.. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/