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SCM_RIGHTS API quirks (2019)

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S-C-M Rights is a Unix socket mechanism for passing file descriptors between processes. Kentonv has documented several quirks in how this low-level API behaves, recently shared on Lobsters for developers working with inter-process communication.

Source: https://gist.github.com/kentonv/bc7592af98c68ba2738f4436920868dc

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