Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > Just for the record, I was about to try to do this, when I realized that > exposing prctl requires expecting a variable number of arguments with > variable types. > It turns out providing a Python wrapper for such a kind of C API is just a > pain. > There's an implementation though, handling 2 args only (instead of 5): > https://github.com/seveas/python-prctl/blob/master/_prctlmodule.c#L9 > Considering that this also Linux-only, I don't think it really worths the > effort.
It's actually simpler than you think: I don't think any of the existing controls uses arg4 and arg5. PR_MCE_KILL uses arg3, though. prctl is really a set of system calls, and should be wrapped as such: each control needs to be supported specifically. However, several of them are similar, i.e. take either no argument, or have Whether it's worth supporting it, I don't know. I stand by my original proposition: if somebody would contribute this, I'd be in favor of including it. I'm unlikely to write it on my own from scratch, though. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5672> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
