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p5-IO-FDPass-1.3

pass a file descriptor over a socket

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Description

This small low-level module only has one purpose: pass a file descriptor to another process, using a (streaming) unix domain socket (on POSIX systems) or any (streaming) socket (on WIN32 systems).

Package information

Ports path
devel/p5-IO-FDPass
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel, perl5
Available flavors
None listed

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