At http://twistedmatrix.com/~tv/eunuchs/ and in Debian incoming. $ dpkg -s python-eunuchs Package: python-eunuchs Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 36 Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org> Source: eunuchs Version: 20030325.1 Depends: python, python-twisted, pwgen, python2.2-eunuchs Description: Missing manly parts of UNIX API for Python Eunuchs is a library of Python extension that complement the standard libraries in parts where full support for the UNIX API (or the Linux API) is missing. . Most of the functions wrapped by Eunuchs are low-level, dirty, but absolutely necessary functions for real systems programming. The aim is to have the functions added to mainstream Python libraries. . Current list of functions included: . - fchdir(2) . - recvmsg(2) and sendmsg(2), including use of cmsg(3) . This is a dummy package that depends on the correct version of python-eunuchs for the default version of Python. -- :(){ :|:&};: