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Sharing buffers between devicesSharing buffers between devicesPosted Aug 19, 2011 21:20 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)In reply to: Sharing buffers between devices by cavok Parent article: Sharing buffers between devices
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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