more unix ideas

[Paul Scherf]

>> 1) have a swapfd system call
>>         Usage:  swapfd(fd1,proc,fd2)
>> or possibly:    swapfd(proc1,fd1,proc2,fd2)
>> 
>> what this does, is makes procs (usually another process) fd2, to become
>> my fd1, and my fd1 to become (point to a file structure) of procs fd2.

You might try using sockets on 4.2BSD to pass file descriptors.

Paul Scherf, Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon, USA, tektronix!tekecs!paulsc