If anyone cares, the answer is that a socket`s i/o streams extend file
i/o streams which have getFD method.  This is of course undocumented.

The following code works:
FileInputStream in = (FileInputStream) Socket.getInputStream();
FileDescriptor fd = in.getFD();

Dan


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> Hi all.
>
> I want to use the HP thread polling API, however I've been unable to
> figure out how to get access to the FileDescriptor objects from the
> Sockets I'm using.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
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