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From: Theo Verelst <theover AT tiscali DOT nl>
Subject: Re: Passing file descriptors
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:59:23 +0100
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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..



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