Christopher Smith wrote:
Not at all. You just fork after you create the file. I've also seen some
OS's that let you copy a file descriptor from another process, which is
a pretty cool way to handle it. I don't think there is a way to do that
with Linux.
Actually, on that one, I think there is. You have to use some special
magic call to write the file descriptor to a pipe or some such, and the
other end gets the file opening. Not that I'd ever use such a thing, but
clearly someone needed it. I remember reading about it when someone
wanted to pass like an X11 window handle to a different process or
something.
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