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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:41:39 +0100
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Subject: Re: WSADuplicateSocket used to implement ssh session multiplexing?
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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

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