[ewg] Sharing Infiniband connection with forked child

[Woodruff, Robert J]

Greg wrote,

>I've been working with Infiniband recently and am relatively unfamiliar with
>the technology. I was hoping someone on this list could answer a
>question for me.

>When an Infiniband connection is established between a client and
>server, when  the client fork()s into a child process, can the child
>process share the existing connection with the parent process
>(as is the case with shared sockets)?

No. that is not allowed. The child can create new resources and 
establish it's own communication, but it cannot inherit the parent's connection.