From: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:07:54 -0400
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: socket vs pipe difference in /proc/pid/fd
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Hello All,
    I am running 2.4.20 and have run into something that may be a bug.

I am hacking some stuff together to debug a distributed application.
As part of this, I attempt to open /proc/pid/fd/0 and /proc/pid/fd/1
for a process.  These descriptors are a socket, created with the
socketpair() system call in the processes parent.  When I try to
open these sockets, from the shell, I get a message about the open
failing due to the /proc/pid/fd/0 being an invalid devicde.

If I change the parent application so that it uses 2 pipes rather than
a socketpair, then I have no problems opening the /proc files.

Is this difference between pipes and sockets deliberate?

Thanks,

Jim
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