Method
GioUnixConnectionsend_fd
since: 2.22
Declaration
gboolean
g_unix_connection_send_fd (
GUnixConnection* connection,
gint fd,
GCancellable* cancellable,
GError** error
)
Description
Passes a file descriptor to the receiving side of the
connection. The receiving end has to call g_unix_connection_receive_fd()
to accept the file descriptor.
As well as sending the fd this also writes a single byte to the stream, as this is required for fd passing to work on some implementations.
Available since: 2.22
Parameters
fd-
Type:
gintA file descriptor.
cancellable-
Type:
GCancellableOptional
GCancellableobject,NULLto ignore.The argument can be NULL.The data is owned by the caller of the method. error-
Type:
GError **The return location for a recoverable error.
The argument can be NULL.If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to aNULLGError*.The argument will be left initialized to NULLby the method if there are no errors.In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.