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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:07:01 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Descriptor passing between process
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:55:07AM +0100, Christophe LEITIENNE wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using Cygwin 1.3.8 on a Windows 2000 box.
> I'm looking for a way to pass a socket descriptor between 2 process, using
> sendmsg and recvmsg on a unix named pipe. This procedure seems to be well
> knowned and works well on Linux and AIX.
> I didn't found anything interesting about it in the mailing list archives,
> except someone who started to port this API to Cygwin some time ago, without
> any further informations.
> 
> am I doing something wrong ?
> Will this API be ported to Cygwin in a near future ?

It's part of the API since 1.3.8-1.

Corinna

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