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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:32:10 +0200
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On 2024-08-25 09:50, Sebastian wrote:
> In comp.unix.programmer Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
>> Windows did many things wrong, but accessing file descriptors by numbers
>> is beyond even Windows. In Windows a file is an OS object. You access it
>> getting an opaque handle to. Note that a handle can be marshaled from
>> one process to another. Try that with process-local numbers!
> 
> UNIX domain sockets support the passing of file descriptors between
> processes.

File descriptor (a pointer to) is not file number.

You cannot pass number 1 simply because 1 is already in use.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de