Duplicating Unix Domain Sockets

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Tue Jun 4 05:41:00 GMT 2002



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of egor duda


> That's what cygwin daemon is for -- to provide a
> services that require high privileges to normal non-privileged
> processes. After such handle duplication service (with appropriate
> security checks) is implemented in cygwin daemon, it would be simple
> to augment AF_UNIX sockets protocol to be able to pass auxiliary
> information such as fds.

And as the daemon's features for handle passing are complete (the tty
code works fine), this should be easily achievable now. I don't have
time myself, but will happily provide pointers for anyone wanting to add
the necessary code to the cygserver.

Rob


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