Thanks for the clarification - I missed that post, and was distracted by this earlier one, which induced optimism: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg00657.html
So apparently that's that for file descriptor passing. Plz advise if there's another method that works in cygwin. - davidr On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Brian Ford wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, David Rosenbloom wrote: > > > I am unable to get sendmsg and recvmsg to successfully pass open file > > descriptors between processes. I am using the Stevens APUE sample as a template, > > the 4.3BSD version, since that matches the msghdr struct in cygwin/socket.h. I > > notice a bunch of postings in the archive indicating (a) that file descriptor > > passing was not supported at one time, and (b) that it may have been > > subsequently added - I can't tell from the threads. > > > I haven't seen any that imply it has been added. > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg00060.html > > seems pretty clear to me. > > -- > Brian Ford > Senior Realtime Software Engineer > VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems > FlightSafety International > Phone: 314-551-8460 > Fax: 314-551-8444 > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
