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 X-Authentication-Warning: eos.vss.fsi.com: ford owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:00:53 -0600 (CST) From: Brian Ford X-X-Sender: ford@eos To: davidr@ezmeeting.com cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sendmsg/recvmsg file descriptor passing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, David Rosenbloom wrote: > I am unable to get sendmsg and recvmsg to successfully pass open file > descriptors between processes. I am using the Stevens APUE sample as a template, > the 4.3BSD version, since that matches the msghdr struct in cygwin/socket.h. I > notice a bunch of postings in the archive indicating (a) that file descriptor > passing was not supported at one time, and (b) that it may have been > subsequently added - I can't tell from the threads. > I haven't seen any that imply it has been added. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg00060.html seems pretty clear to me. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- 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/