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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Ideas for changes to Unix filesystem
Message-ID: <28609:Feb1714:43:3491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 91 14:43:34 GMT
References: <BZS.91Feb14042459@world.std.com> <27BC2E07.673D@tct.uucp> <BZS.91Feb16112615@world.std.com>
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In article <BZS.91Feb16112615@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
> Particularly in
> combination with that BSD feature of passing fd's around on sockets.
> (oh boy, now 100 people are gonna say, huh??? look into the access
> rights stuff in send(2)/recv(2) on a BSD system.)

More precisely, that BSD 4.2-and-later-but-generally-buggy-before-4.3
feature of file descriptor passing on UNIX-domain sockets, usable with
sendmsg(2) and recvmsg(2). Working example: pty's reconnect feature.

---Dan