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Allow file descriptor to be passed to UDP socket - just as one can for TCP/Unix sockets #14961
Description
In the net API (https://nodejs.org/api/net.html) Node allows the reception of an existing socket via its file descriptor - in the server.listen(handle[, backlog][, callback]) API. This is, among other things, useful when receiving the listening socket from a supervising daemon.
Unfortunately no such possibility appears to exist for the dgram API (https://nodejs.org/api/dgram.html).
This is a request to add such a feature in the future.
Thanks.
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bnoordhuis commentedon Aug 21, 2017
I think that would be an acceptable change. Pull requests welcome, the libuv function you are looking for is called
uv_udp_open();uv_tcp_open()is its net module counterpart.dgram: implement socket.bind({ fd })