You can't share file descriptors between machines.

It would need to act as an active proxy between the two and I'm not sure
you can tell if there is an fd unless you are expecting it..


On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:53:57PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:
> Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> 
> > tmux uses the SCM_RIGHTS OOB data mechanism to pass a file descriptor,
> > socat obviously does not handle this.
> >
> > I'm not sure it would even be possible for it to do so.
> >
> > The tmux server needs a duplicate of the tty fd so it can update the
> > terminal.
> 
> I wonder why socat or some other proxy cannot transparently send this
> message like any other?  Is the operating system supposed to transform
> the fd's sent so they are usable by the receiver like dup'ed ones?
> 
> 
> clemens
> 
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