sendfd

Last update: 07/05/2026

sendfd

Send file descriptors over unix sockets in Rust

Latest version: 0.4.4

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Security

	Vulnerabilities
Version	Suggest	Low	Medium	High	Critical

0.4.4	0	0	0	0	0
0.4.3	0	0	0	0	0
0.4.2	0	0	0	0	0
0.4.1	0	0	0	0	0
0.4.0	0	0	0	0	0
0.3.3	0	0	0	0	0
0.3.2	0	0	0	0	0
0.3.1	0	0	0	0	0
0.3.0	0	0	0	0	0
0.2.1	0	0	0	0	0
0.2.0	0	0	0	0	0
0.1.0	0	0	0	0	0

Stability

Latest release:

0.4.4 - This version may not be safe as it has not been updated for a long time. Find out if your coding project uses this component and get notified of any reported security vulnerabilities with Meterian-X Open Source Security Platform

Licensing

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Apache-2.0 - Apache License 2.0

Not a wildcard

Not proprietary

OSI Compliant

BSD-3-Clause - BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

Not a wildcard

Not proprietary

OSI Compliant

sendfd

sendfd is a little bare-bones crate that provides APIs to send file descriptors over UNIX sockets in Rust.

This is done by providing an extension trait that is implemented by the UNIX domain socket types available in the standard library and (optionally) Tokio. For more information, see the documentation.

There is no intention to make this crate a cross-platform abstraction (use the ipc-channel crate for that).

Thanks to roblabla for giving us the crate name, as well as for the inspiration from their original implementation.

sendfd is distributed under Apache 2.0 or BSD 3-clause license at your choice.