Ideas for changes to Unix filesystem

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <BZS.91Feb16112615 at world.std.com> bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
> Particularly in
> combination with that BSD feature of passing fd's around on sockets.
> (oh boy, now 100 people are gonna say, huh??? look into the access
> rights stuff in send(2)/recv(2) on a BSD system.)

More precisely, that BSD 4.2-and-later-but-generally-buggy-before-4.3
feature of file descriptor passing on UNIX-domain sockets, usable with
sendmsg(2) and recvmsg(2). Working example: pty's reconnect feature.

---Dan