[issue13777] socket: communicating with Mac OS X KEXT controls

2012-01-12 Thread Michael Goderbauer
New submission from Michael Goderbauer : Mac OS X provides a socket-based API to communicate with Kernel Extensions (KEXTs) called "KEXT Controls". For this, Mac OS X defines PF_SYSTEM as a new socket domain which supports the SYSPROTO_CONTROL protocol. Right now the PF_SYSTEM doma

[issue13777] socket: communicating with Mac OS X KEXT controls

2012-02-03 Thread Michael Goderbauer
Michael Goderbauer added the comment: Here is the regenerated patch. To write a test case I would need a PF_SYSTEM socket to connect to. As far as I know Mac OS X doesn't provide a demo socket for this. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24410/patch2.