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Sharing buffers between devicesSharing buffers between devicesPosted Aug 19, 2011 16:21 UTC (Fri) by cavok (subscriber, #33216)Parent article: Sharing buffers between devices
Is this "buffer fd" a proper fd?
May sharing buffers between devices cross also the application boundary? In such case, what happens to the fd number?
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Sharing buffers between devices Posted Aug 19, 2011 21:20 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]
There is a mechanism to send file descriptors across Unix local sockets between processes. Network servers have used this a lot in order to send a socket to another process for doing the actual work.
This is sendmsg/recvmsg with SCM_RIGHTS, I believe.
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