Steve Dirickson b894 WestWin writes:
> In fact, that's one of the key reasons why we use NetIPC; BSD sockets
> can't be handed from one process to another, and at the time they became
> available, fork() had some serious problems (don't know if it does now or
> not-don't care either).

fork() works fine now, and will pass open socket descriptors from parent to
child.  The Apache/iX web server would not be able to function without this.
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