Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > > What needs to happen to get recvmsg() supported in Python? > > Well, I guess that the only reason is that no committer is motivated > enough to bring this into Python: it's a rather large patch, and > honestly, I'm not sure that many people are going to use it. > The feature I personally like the most about sendmsg/recvmsg is the > ability to do scatter-gather I/O, but if the performance is critical, > then I won't be using Python. > I know that sendmsg also has some other advantages (passing FDs, > ancillary data...).
Modules/_multiprocessing already has code using sendmsg/recvmsg, precisely to pass FDs IIRC. Generic support for sendmsg() and recvmsg() in the socket module would allow to rewrite that code in pure Python. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6560> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
