On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 xsprite@bigfoot.com wrote:
man socketpair
wow
int fds[2], x;
(it's still before 12, there are likely mistakes in this) It is possible to do it with pipe(2), but it uses twice as many file descriptors. If all doesn't seem right, don't dup2 stderr (fd 2) for each process and see what happens.
I understood about half that message, so I'm off to do some reading, then try this stuff out.
thanks!
DC
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