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From: Sebastian <sebastian@here.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:50:20 -0000 (UTC)
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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.