note Corion <p>Actually, you <i>can</i> pass filehandles between processes, it's just not something that solves many problems, and there usually are better ways to accomplish the same, as you outlined already. <tt>:-)</tt></p> <p>[mod://PPerl] has code for passing around filehandles in [http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MSERGEANT/PPerl-0.25/pass_fd.c|pass_fd.c], and I wrote a replacement for that for Win32, but can't find it on RT. Maybe I forgot to open a bug for it.</p><p>This approach still leaves systems not so close to Unix in the rain of course, so your better, and common, approach of using [doc://accept] still stands.</p> 1014374 1014431