Re: usefulness of scsh for web CGIs

[holly@random.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de (Holger Duerer - Esperanto parolata)]

>>>>> On 21 May 1996 08:06:30 -0400, shivers@ai.mit.edu (Olin Shivers) said:
  Olin>    From: Hannes Haug <Hannes.Haug@Student.Uni-Tuebingen.de>
  Olin>    Subject: Re: usefulness of scsh for web CGIs

  Olin>    [...] The possibility to pass file descriptors to scsh
  Olin>    (not yet possible) would make the whole thing trivial.

  Olin> Unfortunately, passing file descriptors to non-children is not
  Olin> standard Unix.
  Olin>     -Olin

Ups, it is not?  What are the exact requirements to be `standard
Unix'?  W.R.Stevens mentions in his `Adv. Programming in the UNIX
Env.' that from SVR3.2 on passing of open file descriptors is
supported.  BSD did this (correctly) from 4.3 on.  Which of today's
Unices does not support it?

        Holger

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