On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, [ISO-8859-1] "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Philippe Biondi wrote: > > I've done a small patch to use linux AF_NETLINK sockets (see below). > > Please comment! > > I have a high-level comment - python-dev is normally the wrong place > for patches; please submit them to sf.net/projects/python instead.
OK, I'll post it here. > > Apart from that, the patch looks fine. Fine! > > > Is there a reason for recvmsg() and sendmsg() not to be implemented > > yet in socketmodule ? > > I'm not sure what you mean by "implemented": these functions are > implemented by the operating system, not in the socketmodule. > > If you ask "why are they not exposed to Python yet?": There has been no > need to do so, so far. What do I get with recvmsg that I cannot get with > recv/recvfrom just as well? You can have access to ancillary messages. You can, for example transmit credentials or file descriptors through unix sockets, which is very interesting for privilege separation. -- Philippe Biondi <phil@ secdev.org> SecDev.org Security Consultant/R&D http://www.secdev.org PGP KeyID:3D9A43E2 FingerPrint:C40A772533730E39330DC0985EE8FF5F3D9A43E2 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
