RE: Inheriting socket in spawned child proces???

It's hard to tell what the issue may be without knowing more details.

Here are couple of IBM links that illustrate socket inheritance between
processes:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/ic2924/info/rzab6/rzab
6xdescriptors.htm

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/ic2924/info/rzab6/rzab
6designrec.htm

Elvis

-----Original Message-----
Subject: [C400-L] Inheriting socket in spawned child proces???

Hi.


I'm using APR as portability library for my program.
I'm accepting a network connection in the parent and later I spawn a
child process passing the OS file descriptor (e.g. 4) to the child
process.

I construct an apr socket in the child process from the passed file
descriptor number (e.g. 4). Later when I try to get a remote address, I'm
getting an error that the given file descriptor is not a socket. I'm also
unable to write to the mentioned socket (no data arives to the client).

The same program is working fine on Linux. So I guess that there is a
strange 'trick' how to make file descriptor inheriting work. Any hint?


Thanks and best regards,
Dezo