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		vlovich123 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots ... Why not hand off the fd to the new process spawned as a child? That’s how a lot of professional 0 downtime upgrades work: spawn a process, hand off fd & state, exit.

Sesse__ 9 days ago [–]

That's exactly what it's doing. The tricky part is the “hand off state” part.

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