[PATCH 3/6] Add support for file descriptor request fields

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Thu Nov 7 04:04:59 PST 2013


Daniel Martin <consume.noise at gmail.com> writes:

> The <fd> tag is not necessary. It should be an ordinary field - as it
> gets handled.

I prefer using a separate tag as '<field>' tags now universally mean
bytes encoded on the wire, and '<fd>' elements are strictly *not* on the
wire in the usual sense.

It's not a different data type, it's taking an entirely different route
over the network.

>> +class FileDescriptor(SimpleType):
>> ...
>
> Is this class a leftover from tests? Looks like it's not used
> anywhere.

Yeah, looks like a leftover, sorry.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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