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Asked: 2026-05-19T10:30:59+00:00

I’m writing an library which will transmit data via multiple routes; TCP, UDP, RDMA

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I’m writing an library which will transmit data via multiple routes; TCP, UDP, RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) and occasionally via a straight function call where client/server are rolled into a single binary.

I’ll be handling TCP, UDP, RDMA with file descriptors and have been looking at how I could achieve somethign similar with a FunctionCallSocket class which would take the rough form:

class FunctionCallSocket
{
    public:
        FunctionCallSocket();
        ~FunctionCallSocket();

        void send(char* buf, std::size_t len);
        void recv(char* dest, std::size_t len);

    private:
        char*  m_outboundBuffer;
        char*  m_inboundBuffer;
};

I’d like to do is be able to treat the class like a file descriptor whereby I could pass it along with TCP, UDP, etc. file handles to a select/epoll.

From what I understand the file descriptor integer value is generated by the OS from a privately held table which maps files to id’s so I’d somehow need to spoof this.

Any thoughts on how I could achieve this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could use OS-specific calls to get file descriptors, if you want to. For example, the Unix open function would do just what you want.

    Alternatively, you could make your code to read and write data part of a polymorphic class hierarchy, which would let you use file descriptors where appropriate and the streams library (for example) for file I/O. In fact, one idea might be to writw custom stream classes to wrap up the TCP connections, then use ostream and istream as wrappers around the specifics of the connection.

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