[New-bugs-announce] [issue17996] socket module should expose AF_LINK

Giampaolo Rodola' report at bugs.python.org
Fri May 17 04:20:43 CEST 2013


New submission from Giampaolo Rodola':

I bumped into this while exposing getifaddrs() [1] in psutil:
https://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=376

In that case AF_LINK would be useful to distinguish MAC addresses (see also: http://carnivore.it/2010/07/22/python_-_getifaddrs).

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getifaddrs.3.html

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messages: 189420
nosy: giampaolo.rodola, pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: socket module should expose AF_LINK
versions: Python 3.4

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