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From: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
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Hi Randy,

On 25.02.2013 06:13, Randy Yates wrote:
> How can the bluez stack, which runs in its own process, generate a file
> descriptor and hand that fd over to another process (the bluetooth
> profile server process)? I was under the impression that fds can not be
> passed across processes.
>
> bluez 5.2

Have a look at the section talking about SCM_RIGHTS in 'man 7 unix'

hth,
daniel