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  From: Daryl Tester <dt@picknowl.com.au>
  To  : Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
  Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 16:45:21 +0930

Re: Passing file descriptors (was: Protecting files against powerfailure)

Greg Lehey wrote:

> I don't know about Linux, but UNIX can definitely pass file
> descriptors.  Rich Stevens goes into it in great detail in "Advanced
> Programming in the UNIX environment", pages 479-490, 

Well, roger me with a stiff-wire brush, so it does.   I'll have
to read up on it further, because I couldn't absorb anything with
a quick glance (a bit sleep deprived this end).

> but he doesn't mention Linux.

The book is copyright '93, which would predate "popular-Linux".

I found I_SENDFD in <bits/stropts.h>, but it says "#define I_SENDFD
17	/* Requests the STREAM associated with `fildes'"
- and I didn't think Linux supported STREAMS yet.  Mmm, must dig
deeper.


Regards,
  Daryl Tester

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