X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:41:39 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: WSADuplicateSocket used to implement ssh session multiplexing? Message-ID: <20051124164139.GA5385@implementation.labri.fr> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4a162fd0511231156h142d7a7fnb598aee09b134ec4@mail.gmail.com> <20051124112503.GA2999@calimero.vinschen.de> <20051124113956.GW5385@implementation.labri.fr> <20051124154138.GH2999@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20051124154138.GH2999@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i-nntp X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Corinna Vinschen, le Thu 24 Nov 2005 16:41:38 +0100, a écrit : > On Nov 24 12:39, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen, le Thu 24 Nov 2005 12:25:03 +0100, a écrit : > > > You're missing the infrastructure necessary to send file descriptor > > > data between processes. > > > > This is not trivial indeed, but it is _possible_, isn't it? > > Well, sure, everything is possible one way or the other. Not when it requires modifying the windows kernel because of security guards. Here, transfering a windows socket handle _is_ possible with the current kernel. Work only resides in cygwin. That's the expected answer to the original question, I guess. Regards, Samuel -- 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/