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Date:      31 Aug 1999 10:43:01 +0300
From:      Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
To:        bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, gupz@hotmail.com
Subject:   Re: Sharing file descriptors
Message-ID:  <861zck1jlm.fsf@not.demophon.com>
In-Reply-To: bright@wintelcom.net's message of "30 Aug 1999 17:53:23 %2B0300"
References:  <19990830142553.77697.qmail@hotmail.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908300805090.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>

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bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein) writes:

> 1) file descriptor passing (described in Unix Network Programming Vol I)

Or just read recv(2), search for SCM_RIGHTS.

> 2) shared address fork (should be on http://lt.tar.com)

Or just read rfork(2), and you don't need to share the address space.

The general idea of software server redundancy seems a bit odd,
though, debugging the software carefully and automatically restarting
it on failures is generally a better idea.


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