send file descriptor via ipc

[Jiawei Ye]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:39:07 -0800, John-Mark Gurney
<gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> You can also look at unix(4) which has a brief description..  You must
> use unix domain sockets in order to pass file descriptors, and so the
> unp probably refers to UNix Protocol...  but I could be wrong about
> that...
> 
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I always thought the unp_ prefix referred to Unix Network Programming
(http://www.kohala.com/start/unpv12e.html) since most sample code
given in the book had the prefix. But I may be wrong here :)

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