Comment by tliltocatl
8 hours ago
The problem with POSIX IPC is that passing file descriptors between processes (other than parent passing to child via fork) is hard. Yes, SCM_RIGHTS can do it, but it is quite error prone and rarely done.
8 hours ago
The problem with POSIX IPC is that passing file descriptors between processes (other than parent passing to child via fork) is hard. Yes, SCM_RIGHTS can do it, but it is quite error prone and rarely done.
Every single Wayland and GPU-accelerated X11 app does that all the time.