On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 7:41 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>
There was a discussion here a while ago about it too: search for 'sendfd on
native Plan 9' from december 2008. Start here:
http://9fans.net/archive/2008/12/515, follow till January 2009.

Currently, if your processes have a common parent, you can use rfork; if
not, you must resort to #s. '#s' is a pretty unfortunate interface,
though...

-- vs