Re: [9fans] ideas for helpful system io functions

[Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>]

I guess the question is, is this the easy way to address the problem
you try to solve? Or is it a solution seeking for a problem?
You could just forward the data to the new process. Is there a
performance problem here?

If you insist on 'unreading', you could just put a front-end process that
keeps per-request data so that your external process can ask the
front-end for all the data again.

Or I'm missing something.

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Sam Watkins <sam@nipl.net> wrote:
>> the standard way of passing file descriptors is by fork/exec.
>> this allows security is handled by the normal means.
>
> Erik/others, would you please give some feedback on my idea (a join call which
> connects two fds together and disowns them from the process).  Passing fds
> around does not solve the same problems and has nothing to do with what I
> suggested.
>
> Perhaps this list is not the right place to air "new" or different ideas
> related to the implementation of operating systems?
>
> Sam
>
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