Re: [PATCH] syscall: introduce sendfd() syscall (v.2)

2014-12-05 Thread Alex Dubov
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > > See senfd recvfd in gnulib. It wirk even under solaris > What's so special about a thin wrapper around domain sockets/named fifos (solaris style)? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

[PATCH] syscall: introduce sendfd() syscall (v.2)

2014-12-03 Thread Alex Dubov
Present patch introduces exceptionally easy to use, low latency and low overhead mechanism for transferring file descriptors between cooperating processes: int sendfd(pid_t pid, int sig, int fd) Given a target process pid, the sendfd() will queue a real-time signal for delivery to task refere