On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 11:41:44 +0100 Richard Cochran <richardcoch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:17:37AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > Come on guys, get a cup of coffee and relax a bit... > > I am relaxed, especially after I had a good laugh reading this: > > On a less related note, I hope you will agree that the simpler > mechanism for this very in-demand feature is long overdue on Linux > (every man and his dog are passing fds around these days). > > Really, in years and years of unix programming, I have not yet felt > the need to pass a file descriptor. Thats goes double for my dogs. Its underused in part because you need a pointy hat to do it in Unix, but it's a very common model elsewhere. Whether you need the syscall or just to write sendfd() acceptfd() in terms of AF_UNIX sockets in a library and bury the icky bits is another question. I think the reality is you'd probably end up doing the library *anyway* to deal with the fact it'll be 5 or more years before sendfd percolated everywhere even if it was merged today. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
