[Patch] Moving FD passing into the header

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Lennart Poettering <mzqohf at 0pointer.de> wrote:

> Such an approach would suggest itself if we had more than one type of
> OOB data to pass around. But I don't really see that. Looking through
> the man pages on Linux only three kinds of data can be sent out-of-band
> really so far:
>
>
> SCM_CREDENTIALS (which we already cover a different way)
> SO_TIMESTAMP (which is kinda useless here I think)
> SCM_RIGHTS

These are for sockets; DBus is higher level.  For example, it might
also make sense to later add  "large read-only buffer" as an
out-of-band type.