passing a socket to a spawned process.

[Marcos Dione]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 10:23:27AM -0700, Mike M wrote:
> Is it possible?  In the parent process, I have a socket that binds,
> listens and then accepts new connections (which creates new sockets in
> the process).  I want to be able to pass some of these new sockets to
> a spawned process.  Is it possible, and if so how?

  just accept() before fork()'ing. the socket will be cloned. then close the
socket on the parent, unless needed.

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