Ability to send arbitrary FDs across processes
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Description
Currently only channels and shared memory regions can be sent via IPC. It would be nice if one could serialize arbitrary objects implementing IntoRawFd and FromRawFd.
eg:
let handle = Handle::new(File::open(...).unwrap());
tx.send(handle).unwrap();
let file = rx.recv().unwrap().into_inner();
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Research direction
Start by tracing how ipc-channel currently serializes and transfers channels and shared memory regions between processes. Determine how arbitrary objects implementing IntoRawFd and FromRawFd would fit that path, using the Handle example as the target behavior. Done means such a handle can be sent and received across processes and recovered as a File.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- distributed-systems, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100