On Nov 12, 12:50 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-11-12, JamesHoward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know any method to have one program, acting as a > > server transfer a socket connection to another program? > > The only way I know of is to use fork. When you fork a > process, all open file-descriptors (including network > connections) are inherited by the child. > > > I looked into transferring the connection via xml rpc to no > > avail. > > I've no idea how that could work (even in theory) on any OS > with which I'm familiar. > > > It seems to be a problem of getting access to a programs > > private memory space and giving another program access to that > > space. > > Private memory has nothing to do with it. The connection is a > data structure that lives in kernel space, not in user space. > Even if you could grant another process access to your "private > memory space", it wouldn't help you "transfer a socket > connection", since that connection is something the OSes > manages. > > -- > Grant Edwards grante Yow! ! Everybody out of > at the GENETIC POOL! > visi.com
Thanks Grant, Does this mean that there is some way to transfer a pointer to that kernel memory space from one program to another and have it be valid, or is that kernel memory space protected and unusable from other processes? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
