New functions getnameinfo, getaddrinfo. New exceptions socket.gaierror,
socket.herror. Various new constants, in particular AF_INET6 and error
codes and parameters for getaddrinfo.
AF_INET6 support in setipaddr, makesockaddr, getsockaddr, getsockaddrlen,
gethost_common, PySocket_gethostbyaddr.
When getting a string buffer for a string we just created, use
PyString_AS_STRING() instead of PyString_AsString() to avoid the
call overhead and extra type check.
this could cause invalid paths to be returned for AF_UNIX sockets on some
platforms (including FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE), appearantly because there is
no assurance that the address will be nul-terminated when filled in by the
kernel.
PySocketSock_recvfrom(): Use PyString_AS_STRING() to get the data pointer
of a string we create ourselves; there is no need for the extra type
check from PyString_AsString().
This closes SF bug #416573.
OpenSSL versions beore 0.9.5. This just is too experimental to be
worth it, especially since the user would have to do some severe
hacking of the Modules/Setup file to even enable the EGD code, and
without the EGD code it would always spit out a warning on some
systems -- even when socket.ssl() is not used. Fixing that properly
is not my job; the EGD patch is clearly not so important that it
should hold up the 2.1 release.
problem reported by Neil Schemenauer on python-dev on 4/12/01, wth
subject "Problem with SSL and socketmodule on Debian Potato?".
It's tentative because Moshe objected, but Martin rebutted, and Moshe
seems unavailable for comments.
(Note that with OpenSSL 0.9.6a, I get a lot of compilation warnings
for socketmodule.c -- I'm assuming I can safely ignore these until 2.1
is released.)
Adds support for raw packets (AF_PACKET) under Linux. I haven't
tested this code thoroughly; it compiles and the basic calls all work
without crashing. Not sure what to actually do with raw sockets though.
Not sure what other platforms this might be useful for.
This doesn't change the copyright status for these files -- just the
markings! Doing it on the main branch for these three files for which
the HEAD revision was pushed back into 1.6.
for systems that are missing those declarations from system include files.
Start by moving a pointy-haired ones from their previous locations to the
new section.
(The gethostname() one, for instance, breaks on several systems, because
some define it as (char *, size_t) and some as (char *, int).)
I purposely decided not to include the summary of used #defines like Tim did
in the first section of pyport.h. In my opinion, the number of #defines
likedly to be used by this section would make such an overview unwieldy. I
would suggest documenting the non-obvious ones, though.
and a couple of functions that were missed in the previous batches. Not
terribly tested, but very carefully scrutinized, three times.
All these were found by the little findkrc.py that I posted to python-dev,
which means there might be more lurking. Cases such as this:
long
func(a, b)
long a;
long b; /* flagword */
{
and other cases where the last ; in the argument list isn't followed by a
newline and an opening curly bracket. Regexps to catch all are welcome, of
course ;)
Barry Warsaw
Jeremy Hylton
Martin v. Löwis
Marc-André Lemburg
Thomas Wouters
Fred Drake
Tim Peters
Guido van Rossum
Moshe Zadka
Andrew M. Kuchling
Peter Schneider-Kamp
Mark Hammond