Hi! I wrote a patch adding TIPC support to the socket module, you can find it in http://bugs.python.org/issue1646.
TIPC (http://tipc.sf.net) is an open protocol designed for use in clustered computer environments. It currently has an open source implementation for Linux (>= 2.6.16), and VxWorks. On #python-dev, a very friendly person (whose name/nick I can't recall, I had a power cut and lost my IRC session) helped me with the submission explained that the patch will probably get rejected in order to keep the core slim, and suggested I should send an email to this mailing list so it can be discussed. I already wrote an external module to support TIPC (http://auriga.wearlab.de/~alb/pytipc/), but given that the socket module already supports Linux-specific protocols (AF_PACKET and AF_NETLINK), and the code impact was (IMHO) small, I wrote a patch to add TIPC support. The patch consists of adding the TIPC constants, and modifying makesockaddr(), getsockaddrarg() and getsockaddrlen() to handle the TIPC addresses. No generic code is changed. Compilation is completely conditional on having the TIPC headers, and has no runtime dependencies. The diff adds 156 new lines and changes 2, and on x86 increases code size by about 2k: text data bss dec hex filename 37158 11980 20 49158 c006 /tmp/so/wo-tipc.so 39162 11980 20 51162 c7da /tmp/so/w-tipc.so Thanks a lot, Alberto _______________________________________________ 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
