On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Marc Espie wrote: > 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.
We had talked about putting fdpassing functions into libutil at one stage. IMO it would be better to go ahead with this and then wrap the result. -d
