Summary

unix-sockets: implement FD sending and receiving

Metadata

• Id: f788c24d8087daa00616fb067b73fd33e0677d40
• Trac id: 777
• Type: enhancement
• Reporter: syn
• Owner:
• Cc:
• Status: new
• Component: extensions
• Estimated difficulty: easy
• Resolution:
• Priority: not urgent at all
• Milestone: someday
• Version: 4.7.x
• Changetime: 2026-07-11 13:55:09 UTC
• Created: 2012-01-13 22:37:20 UTC
• Keywords: unix-sockets

Description

Unix domain sockets allow sending and receiving FDs through them. It would be nice to add this functionality to the unix-sockets egg. Ruby has a pretty convenient implementation of this, maybe it could be used as a reference. See [[http://apidock.com/ruby/UNIXSocket/send_io]|] and [[http://apidock.com/ruby/UNIXSocket/recv_iop]|].

Changes and comments

[2012-04-16 15:14:02 UTC] felix removed milestone 4.8.0

[2017-08-25 15:37:40 UTC] sjamaan changed status from new to assigned

[2017-08-25 15:37:40 UTC] sjamaan set difficulty to easy

[2017-08-25 15:37:40 UTC] sjamaan set owner to zbigniew

[2017-08-25 15:37:40 UTC] sjamaan wrote:

I think this is a matter of calling the right ioctl

[2017-08-25 15:38:11 UTC] sjamaan changed owner from zbigniew to felix

[2017-08-25 15:38:11 UTC] sjamaan wrote:

Sorry, wrong maintainer

[2023-11-06 22:02:03 UTC] felix set milestone to someday

[2026-07-04 20:42:08 UTC] felix set owner empty

[2026-07-11 13:55:09 UTC] mario changed status from assigned to new