Socket-PassAccessRights

Socket::PassAccessRights - Perl extension for BSD style file descriptor

passing via Unix domain sockets

28.1.2000, Sampo Kellomaki <sampo@iki.fi>

Home page: http://www.bacus.pt/Net_SSLeay/modules.html

use Socket::PassAccessRights;
Socket::PassAccessRights::sendfd(fileno(SOCKET), fileno(SEND_ME)) or die; $fd = Socket::PassAccessRights::recvfd(fileno(SOCKET)) or die;

Implements passing access rights (i.e. file descritors) over Unix domain sockets as decribed in

Richard Stevens: Unix Network Programming, Prentice Hall, 1990; chapter 6.10.

See pod documentation for details.

INSTALL

        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install  # probably have to su to root first

/* Tested to work on perl 5.005_03

Linux-2.2.14 glibc-2.0.7 (libc.so.6) i586 BSD4.4
Linux-2.0.38 glibc-2.0.7 (libc.so.6) i586 BSD4.4
SunOS-5.6, gcc-2.7.2.3, Sparc BSD4.3
see also: linux/net/unix/af_unix.c */

You may use and distribute Socket::PassAccessRights under the same terms and conditions as the perl itself.

--Sampo