[QPID-4615] Give C++ broker on unix ability to import a listening socket opened by parent process

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.21
• Component/s: C++ Broker
• Assignee: Andrew Stitcher
• Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
• Created: 01/Mar/13 00:36
• Updated: 14/Mar/17 20:07
• Resolved: 01/Mar/13 00:50

Description

This is mostly useful for testing where you want to get a arbitrary port and keep it through a bunch of tests and still kill the broker meanwhile.

This capability should supersede and deprecate the current "--port 0" hack.