Re: Transfer socket connection between programs

JamesHoward wrote:
Does anyone know any method to have one program, acting as a server
transfer a socket connection to another program? I looked into
transferring the connection via xml rpc to no avail. It seems to be a
problem of getting access to a programs private memory space and
giving another program access to that space.
If you are using UNIX, you can create a pipe in the filesystem, and connect I/O on both ends. Of course this is not the same, because - for example - you cannot use setsockopt. But it works with already existing processes very well, and usually you can setup socket options in your server.

Under windows, I have no clue. It may be possible to use pipes under Windows but I don't know how. You can also use other nasty techniques, like loading a DLL into your "another program", then make a code hook into your server. Brrrrrrr. :-) (Unstable, not portable even between Windows versions...)

Regards,

Laszlo


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