Re: Door Files

From: Alan Coopersmith (alanc@alum.calberkeley.org)
Date: 12/20/01


Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:13:27 -0800
From: Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org>
To: rsteven@csc.com

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:12:13AM +0000, rsteven@csc.com wrote:
> I am aware that a door file is a special file but I cannot find out any
> more information than that. I need to find out everything about them can
> anyone help?

They are a form of interprocess communication available in Solaris 2.5 &
later. There's a chapter devoted to them in Unix Network Programming,
2nd Ed., Vol. 2 by W. Richard Stevens.
(http://www.kohala.com/start/unpv22e/unpv22e.html)

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