Vishal Mittal wrote: > Hi, > > I have a process that forks off another process. Both > these processes maintain a bidirectional pipe between > them. How can I pass an open file descriptor from the > parent to the child so that the child can do all the > reading from that file descriptor? > > Thanks > -Vishal
checkout the fileno() function in Perl. Don't rely too much on file descriptor. see perldoc -f fileno() for reason. david -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]