Status of innbind and Solaris

[Russ Allbery]

Heath Kehoe <hakehoe at avalon.net> writes:

> I created some simple source files that demonstrate file descriptor
> passing on streams-based systems:

> http://www.avalon.net/~hakehoe/inn/stream.tar

> This tar contains three source files:

> simpletest.c -- Tests if fd passing works at all.  Suitable (I think) 
> for use as a configure test.

> binder.c -- creates a socket and binds to port 999, then sends the 
> socket to its stdout.  Compile to "binder" and make it setuid root.

> user.c -- invokes ./binder and receives the socket it creates, then 
> tries to listen and accept it.  Run it as non-root.

Cool, thanks, I'll grab this and take a look.  This may be a much better
solution, since I think file descriptor passing is fairly portable (Apache
uses it, for instance).  I hadn't even thought of that.

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