[Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed May 21 06:08:01 CEST 2008


> I can neither find recvfd in my man pages nor in my header files in
> /usr/include on Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 i686). I assume recvfd and sendfd
> aren't syscalls but the proposed names for the functions.

Yes (and no). The system call is sendmsg, with a cmsg_type of
SCM_RIGHTS. I don't think there is a plan to add library functions
with that name.

Regards,
Martin


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