pyflingfd

A simple Python binding for https://github.com/sharvil/flingfd - a small, standalone C library to pass file descriptors across processes on Linux.

Usage

import flingfd
import os

fd = flingfd.simple_recv( '/tmp/uniquefile' )
os.write( fd, 'fling!' )
os.fsync( fd )

import flingfd
import sys

flingfd.simple_send( '/tmp/uniquefile', sys.stdout )

Installation

Installing is super easy:

• clone the repository
• issue git submodule init && git submodule update inside of it to get libflingfd sources
• then pip install -U . or python setup.py install should work out of the box