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Re: passfd on more platforms


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: passfd on more platforms
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:16:25 -0600
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On 03/13/2011 05:38 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> 
> On mingw, I haven't even tried the module. It first requires
>   - a 'socketpair' module for the test,
>   - to rewrite the test to use the 'execute' module instead of fork().

Why do we even need a child process?  Can't we test passing of an fd
between two threads of the same process?  (However, I agree that since
both passfd and recvfd are blocking, it does require multiple threads or
multiple processes to test correctly).

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