David,

Yes it is.  One of W. Richard Stevens' books describes 
how to do this.  I don't have code to do it handy at 
this moment, but I have done so in the past.  I will 
need to hunt it down in another project whose code is 
at home.

Something like this, though.

http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/lists/netdev/199802/msg00143.html

Hal Duston

David Nicol [mailto:nicold@umkc.edu] wrote:
> 
> it is possible to pass an open file descriptor from 
> one process to another and if so how?