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Re: Descriptor passing between process


On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:38:40PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:45:13PM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Thursday, 24 January, 2002 Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:
> > 
> > CV> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:14:20PM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
> > >> CV> It's part of the API since 1.3.8-1.
> > >> 
> > >> Hmm. What change are you referring to? I don't see anything like this
> > >> in the ChangeLog.
> > 
> > CV> 2002-01-19  Mark Bradshaw  <bradshaw@staff.crosswalk.com>
> > 
> > CV>         * cygwin.din: Add recvmsg and sendmsg.
> > CV>         * net.cc: Add cygwin_recvmsg and cygwin_sendmsg.
> > CV>         * /usr/include/sys/socket.h: Add recvmsg and sendmsg.
> > 
> > yes, but if i understand things correctly, Christophe was talking
> > about passing file descriptors between processes by means of AF_UNIX
> > sockets. btw, "Subject:" implies this :).
> > 
> > this is done on unices via msg_control (or msg_accrights) field in msg
> > structure. and unices ensure that the process which receives the
> > message using recvmsg can use the descriptor for all kinds of file
> > operations. in the case of cygwin, the receiver may get the value 3 in
> > message packet, but won't be able to use it in "read (3, buf, sizeof (buf))"
> 
> Ouch.  I didn't read your message correctly before sending the
> reply to Christophe's mail.

More ouch!  I just read a detailed description of the descriptor
passing magic via AF_LOCAL sockets in U*X systems. I see now that
I didn't even know what you were talking about.

It *could* be implemented.  

First we would have to implement the control message passing at all and
when it's available we could perhaps even implement descriptor passing
using the DuplicateHandle() function.

Volunteers?

Corinna

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