On Nov 23 11:56, Jeff Hardy wrote: > I understand that windows does not allow sending open file descriptors > over sockets and that is the reason that session multiplexing through > a control master doesn't work. The documentation for > WSADuplicateSocket states that the resulting WSAPROTOCOL_INFO > structure can be sent through an IPC to a target process and that the > target process can then call WSASocket with that info and the effect > is a shared socket. If the sending process closes the socket, then the > target has the connection to itself. > > Is this essentially the same as sending an open file descriptor > through a socket? I am of course assuming that the fd that is being > sent is for a socket. > > Or am I really missing the big picture?
You're missing the infrastructure necessary to send file descriptor data between processes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
