Socket::PassAccessRights - Perl extension for BSD style file descriptor
                          passing via Unix domain sockets

28.1.2000, Sampo Kellomaki <[email protected]>

Home page: http://www.bacus.pt/Net_SSLeay/modules.html

 use Socket::PassAccessRights;
 Socket::PassAccessRights::sendfd(fileno(SOCKET), fileno(SEND_ME)) or die;
 $fd = Socket::PassAccessRights::recvfd(fileno(SOCKET)) or die;

Implements passing access rights (i.e. file descritors) over Unix
domain sockets as decribed in

 Richard Stevens: Unix Network Programming, Prentice Hall, 1990; chapter 6.10.

See pod documentation for details.

INSTALL
       perl Makefile.PL
       make
       make test
       make install  # probably have to su to root first

/* Tested to work on perl 5.005_03
*   Linux-2.2.14 glibc-2.0.7 (libc.so.6) i586  BSD4.4
*   Linux-2.0.38 glibc-2.0.7 (libc.so.6) i586  BSD4.4
*   SunOS-5.6, gcc-2.7.2.3, Sparc BSD4.3
* see also: linux/net/unix/af_unix.c
*/

Copyright (c) 2000 Sampo Kellomaki <[email protected]>, All Rights Reserved.

You may use and distribute Socket::PassAccessRights under the same terms
and conditions as the perl itself.

--Sampo

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