Doug McNaught wrote: > > You can pass open file descriptors across Unix domain sockets on most > systems, which is a possible way to address the problem, but probably > not worth it for the reasons discussed earlier.
I think that it does solve the problem. The only drawback is that it's not portable. Almost all systems do support one of two methods, though. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster