On 03/14/2011 04:43 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>  While using TCP out-of-band data would be an interesting solution for
>  Windows, UDP doesn't have out-of-band data.  So, if sendfd/recvfd is going
>  to be limited to SOCK_DGRAM, using out-of-band data for Windows is not going
>  to work.

Could we know from fd if it is a udp or tcp socket ?

- if tcp send as OOB
- if udp send normally

I think that'd be overengineering anyway. With the limitation to SOCK_DGRAM sockets (AF_UNIX for Unix, AF_INET for Win32) your original plan works.

Paolo

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