ciancarini-paolo@cs.yale.edu (paolo ciancarini) (04/22/91)
I would like to pass a socket from a process to another; the two processes in general are unrelated (they could even be on different machines, say sharing an NSF FS). To be a little more concrete, I have a concurrent server that uses a connection-oriented protocol using the sequence: socket/bind/listen/accept/fork. I have other processes, not created by the server, that would like to get the particular socket obtained after accept. So, is it possible to pass such a socket among unrelated processes? Please answer by E-mail. I will summarize if there is any interest (and any answer!). Paolo Ciancarini