On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 03:54:50PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > On 10/16/10, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > > I could use "bundled" code to do the following: > > 1/ direct interface to mkstemp > > so that we don't have to use the atrocious File::Temp big monstrosity. > > I've sent Marc a tiny mkdtemp/mkstemp/mkstemps-via-XS module, so > unless he barfs all over it this one is done. > > > > 2/ file descriptor passing over sockets > > means redoing the stuff described in socket/recv/CMSG_DATA > > so that we could have a simple interface to grab stuff in perl. > > Marc, do you have an API in mind that someone working on this should aim for?
Mostly some XS wrapper around the recvmsg/CMSG_DATA part. Then some perl glue that would allow one to grab those data, and gets the fds from it. It should probably only extract the msgs, let "normal" stuff grab non out-of-band data IO, and create an array of those, with level/type/data. If you want to do the send part as well, it should be reversed. What I'm talking about is mostly wrapping around recvmsg/sendmsg and CMSG_DATA pack/unpack type routines.
