Sending file descriptor over UNIX domain socket, and select()

Question

I\'m using a UNIX domain socket to transfer a file descriptor to another process. This works fine, but when I first try to see if socket is writeable using select(), the sen

Answer 1

I tried the sendfd code at this page, which was kindly provided by nos, and even though it's only slightly different, it works even when I use it in combination with select(). This is what the code looks like now:

    int sendfd(int sock, int fd)
    {
      struct msghdr hdr;
      struct iovec data;

      char cmsgbuf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int))];

      char dummy = '*';
      data.iov_base = &dummy;
      data.iov_len = sizeof(dummy);

      memset(&hdr, 0, sizeof(hdr));
      hdr.msg_name = NULL;
      hdr.msg_namelen = 0;
      hdr.msg_iov = &data;
      hdr.msg_iovlen = 1;
      hdr.msg_flags = 0;

      hdr.msg_control = cmsgbuf;
      hdr.msg_controllen = CMSG_LEN(sizeof(int));

      struct cmsghdr* cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&hdr);
      cmsg->cmsg_len   = CMSG_LEN(sizeof(int));
      cmsg->cmsg_level = SOL_SOCKET;
      cmsg->cmsg_type  = SCM_RIGHTS;

      *(int*)CMSG_DATA(cmsg) = fd;

      int n = sendmsg(sock, &hdr, 0);

      if(n == -1)
        printf("sendmsg() failed: %s (socket fd = %d)\n", strerror(errno), sock);

      return n;
        }