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Subject: RE: Passing File Descriptors
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:50:12 +1100
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David E Euresti [mailto:davie AT MIT DOT EDU] 
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:44 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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

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