Re: registration request

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:14:29 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.package
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Clemens Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > This command passes open file descriptors to another process over a socket.
> > No name conflicts AFAIK.
> 
> an FD the remote process can use?  how that?

You can do this with Unix-domain sockets on modern Unices.  It's used for
privilege separation and similar tasks.

Charles
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