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From: dave@pta.OZ (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: connecting file descriptors
Message-ID: <141@pta.OZ>
Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 20:29:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: pta.141
Posted: Mon Sep 22 20:29:38 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 05:54:31 EDT
Organization: SUN Computer Aust., Sydney, AUSTRALIA
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Keywords: pipe, socket

Dear all,

Is there a way to connect together two file descriptors?  In my
application, I have an array of pipe fd's, and an fd returned from
an accept() call.  I want to connect the accept'ed fd to a particular
pipe fd.  In other words, I want a process to start reading from
that socket.

One hideous way is to spawn a "cat" in the middle of the file
descriptors, with attendant close's and dup's, but there must
be a better way ...

Mail replies are preferred, since it takes forever to read this
newsgroup at 1200 baud, and I'm currently about 200 articles behind!
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