Re: user space web server accelerator support

[David S. Miller]

Fabio Riccardi writes:
 > How can Apache "grab" the file descriptor?
 > 
 > My understanding is that file descriptors are data structures private to
 > a process...
 > 
 > Am I missing something?

Unix sockets allow one processes to "give" a file descriptor to
another process via a facility called "file descriptor passing".

Later,
David S. Miller
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