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    SubjectRe: Question about I_SENDFD
    On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Andrey G. Kaplanov wrote:

    > For instance, following command writes transDsc descriptor to the
    > stream streamDsc.
    > int ret = ioctl(streamDsc, I_SENDFD, transDsc);

    > On Red Hat Linux kernel 2.2.16 ret is -1, errno is 22 - Invalid argument.

    Implementing this ioctl for Linux should be trivial as...

    > That is here done not so, or be other ways of transmission of file
    > descriptor between processes?

    ... Unix sockets allow passing of fds as ancilliary data. See the
    unix(7) manpage for details.

    Simon

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