[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

Changes by Charles-François Natali : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 2293ca739223 by Charles-François Natali in branch 'default': Issue #: socket: Add Reliable Datagram Sockets (PF_RDS) support. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2293ca739223 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Py

[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Not having tests for the control messages is fine with me - we don't need to test Linux, but Python. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

Charles-François Natali added the comment: Here's an updated patch: - address returned by recvfrom() - recv flags (MSG_PEEK) - congestion behavior I've also added a bunch of constants: - all the typical SO_ constants - CMSG flags - RDMA-related options (RDMA is probably one of the most useful f

[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I think the patch currently lacks a lot of symbolic constants; see my review. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Oops, sorry. I wonder if it would be possible to test the address returned by recvfrom(). Same for the flags and ancillary data in recvmsg(). -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

Charles-François Natali added the comment: So, what do you think of the new patch? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

Charles-François Natali added the comment: > - the tests are skipped with "unable to bind RDS socket" here (even > under root). Is it expected? Oops. I did a quick test to force the socket family (because RDS sockets really use sockaddr_in), and apparently I overwrote my original patch... Here

[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: A couple of things: - the tests are skipped with "unable to bind RDS socket" here (even under root). Is it expected? - socket.error is the same as OSError now - there are some ResourceWarnings abount unclosed sockets when running the tests --

[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

Charles-François Natali added the comment: Here's a patch adding support for RDS sockets (with test and documentation update). -- keywords: +needs review, patch nosy: +haypo, neologix, pitrou stage: needs patch -> patch review versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.7, Python 3.2 Added file: h

[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

Changes by Brian Curtin : -- nosy: +brian.curtin priority: -> normal stage: -> needs patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-lis

[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: A patch has good chances of getting accepted (eventually; it may take several months or years). Test cases and documentation changes should be included. Supporting generic socket addresses can't work (IMO): how could Python possibly know how to map a Python

[issue7777] Support needed for AF_RDS family

New submission from Andrew Grover : RDS is a reliable datagram protocol used by Oracle clusters for inter-process communication. It is in the Linux kernel, and has a defined address family number. Its use is identical to UDP, except the address family is 21, and the type is SOCK_SEQPACKET. So