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From: nystrom@enea.se (Lars Nystr|m)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to transfer file descriptors with UNIX domain sockets?
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Date: 29 Jun 90 14:08:58 GMT
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In article <37317@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> rgm@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Menke) writes:
>
>I have seen references in various IPC tutorials and manuals that it is
>possible to transfer file descriptors between processes via UNIX domain
>sockets using sendmsg(2) and recvmsg(2).  Unfortunately, none of these
>documents contain anything more than a tantalizing aside.

There is a book that explains how to do this.

UNIX Network Programming
W. Richard Stevens
Prentice-Hall 1990
ISBN 0-13-949876-1

An example will be E-mailed to you.