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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Fri,  5 Nov 2010 07:41:32 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Passing a file descriptor between processes
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On Fri Nov  5 07:36:42 EDT 2010, rogpeppe@gmail.com wrote:
> see srv(3)
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/3/srv
>
> On 5 November 2010 10:29, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:
> > One of the ugliest interface in Unix is passing a file descriptor between
> > processes [1]. Does Plan9 provide any mechanism for it?
> >
> > [1] http://book.chinaunix.net/special/ebook/addisonWesley/APUE2/0201433079/ch17lev1sec4.html

the op may have seen this: http://lwn.net/Articles/411845/
—which i found hard to read because the author's changing
definition of "unix".

- erik