Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:15394 comp.databases:2276 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!psuvax1!flee From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.databases Subject: Re: getcwd() and friends. Message-ID: Date: 5 Apr 89 17:40:50 GMT References: <3675@ficc.uu.net> <14689@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <3684@ficc.uu.net> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 10 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net's message of 5 Apr 89 04:53:34 GMT In article <3684@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >It would be really nice to be able to pass an fd to another program, too. Surprise! sendmsg() in 4.3bsd lets you do this. SunOS4.0 looks like it may also. See the recv(2) man page, in the paragraph describing msg_accrights. -- Felix Lee flee@shire.cs.psu.edu *!psuvax1!shire!flee