[Patch] Moving FD passing into the header

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Thu Jun 17 14:23:09 PDT 2010


Em Quinta-feira 17. Junho 2010, às 22.47.18, Colin Walters escreveu:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> > I'm not sure I like this approach. Transmarshalling will become just a
> > lot more complex.
> 
> In what situations would you want transmarshalling to preserve descriptors?

Well, when relaying a message from one bus to the other, or copying a type 
from one incoming message to an outgoing one.

But, then again, if we declare that file descriptors are out-of-band data, then 
a message being copied wouldn't need to include the OOB.

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