joyent/node — Issue #2729: Dealing with raw file descriptors
Author: piscisaureus
Created: 2012-02-09 19:30:50+00:00
State: open
Labels: child_process, stdio

People have been complaining about the fact that functionality for working with raw file descriptors got removed / deprecated in node 0.6. Examples are the `net.listenFD` method and the `customFDs` option for `child_process.spawn`.

The purpose of this issue to track (valid) use cases that cannot be solved easily.

So far, I've seen these problems:

* Need to listen() on FD 4 to interact with systemd (#2585, http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/bd147ec417280a5b/8640d43ae903a50e)
* Need to have duplex stdout (#1940) to work with qmail_queue