On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Damir Dezeljin wrote:
> Hi. > > Is there any way to write my own inetd on Windows using APR. > > On UNIX I can construct it as folow: > - a program bind, listen to a specified port and poll for incoming > connections > - when a new connection is made, it closes fd-s 0 (stdin), 1 (stdout) and > 2 (stderr), accept the connection and dup it two times. In this way fd-s > 0,1,2 will be the socket of the accepted connection. > - fork a new process > - close fd-s 0, 1, 2 > > In this way like with inetd, the child will have connection to the client > trough stdin or stdout or stderr. > > Is there a way to do something similar on Windows by using APR. > I found apr_proc_create() and other functions, but I don't know (nor > understand) how I can pass socket descriptor to the client? The best > solution will be to pass it as stdin,... but I think that this isn't > portable, because Windows have diferent socket descriptors. > > Any solution? People have been talking for a while about creating an APR type that allows you to pass file/socket descriptors between processes. The contstruct isn't that hard, and it can be done portably. However, nobody has written the code yet. Without that code, I do not believe that what you want is possible. Ryan
