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From: paulsc@tekecs.UUCP (Paul Scherf)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: more unix ideas
Message-ID: <5466@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 22:14:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 22:14:51 1985
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Reply-To: paulsc@radio_flyer.TEK.UUCP (Paul Scherf)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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>> 1) have a swapfd system call
>>         Usage:  swapfd(fd1,proc,fd2)
>> or possibly:    swapfd(proc1,fd1,proc2,fd2)
>> 
>> what this does, is makes procs (usually another process) fd2, to become
>> my fd1, and my fd1 to become (point to a file structure) of procs fd2.

You might try using sockets on 4.2BSD to pass file descriptors.

Paul Scherf, Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon, USA, tektronix!tekecs!paulsc