[Patch] Moving FD passing into the header

[Havoc Pennington]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> Correct, but that's not the point.
>
> The point is that by moving the file descriptors to out-of-band data,
> applications that haven't been updated will be able to call methods that
> expect file descriptors.
>
> Also, changing the typesystem isn't an argument against FDs because we're
> changing it anyway.

That's what I'm saying, I don't know what the problem is with
extending the type system if we have feature negotiation. It isn't
true that all apps have to be updated at once, or shouldn't be, if the
feature negotiation was done in a working way.

Havoc