ipc: add --input-ipc-client option

While --input-file was removed for justified reasons, wanting to pass
down socket FDs this way is legitimate, useful, and easy to implement.

One odd thing is that

Fixes: #7592

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/DOCS/interface-changes.rst b/DOCS/interface-changes.rst
index cd391aa034..666af5f55e 100644
--- a/DOCS/interface-changes.rst
+++ b/DOCS/interface-changes.rst
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ Interface changes
       "error" field for end-file will silently break at some point in the
       future.
     - deprecate encoding mode (lack of maintainer)
-    - remove deprecated --input-file option
+    - remove deprecated --input-file option, add --input-ipc-client, which is
+      vaguely a replacement of the removed option, but not the same
  --- mpv 0.32.0 ---
     - change behavior when using legacy option syntax with options that start
       with two dashes (``--`` instead of a ``-``). Now, using the recommended
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ Interface changes
       mpv 0.30.0 (related to the previous changelog entry). This affects video
       outputs like vo_x11 and vo_drm, and screenshots, but not much else.
     - deprecate --input-file (there are no plans to remove this short-term,
-      but it will probably eventually go away)
+      but it will probably eventually go away <- that was a lie)
     - deprecate --video-sync=display-adrop (might be removed if it's in the way;
       undeprecated or readded if it's not too much of a problem)
     - deprecate all input section commands (these will be changed/removed, as