Function send_pending_client_fd

hsmd/hsmd.c:495–515

~ This is the callback from below: having sent the reply, we now send the * fd for the client end of the new socketpair. */

/*~ This is the callback from below: having sent the reply, we now send the
 * fd for the client end of the new socketpair. */
static struct io_plan *send_pending_client_fd(struct io_conn *conn,
					      struct client *master)
{
	int fd = pending_client_fd;
	/* This must be the master. */
	assert(is_lightningd(master));
	assert(fd != -1);

	/* This sanity check shouldn't be necessary, but it's cheap. */
	pending_client_fd = -1;

	/*~There's arcane UNIX magic to send an open file descriptor over a
	 * UNIX domain socket.  There's no great way to autogenerate this
	 * though; especially for the receive side, so we always pass these
	 * manually immediately following the message.
	 *
	 * io_send_fd()'s third parameter is whether to close the local one
	 * after sending; that saves us YA callback.
	 */
	return io_send_fd(conn, fd, true, client_read_next, master);
}

/*~ This is used by the master to create a new client connection (which
 * becomes the HSM_FD for the subdaemon after forking). */