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

[Georg Brandl]

Martin v. Löwis schrieb:
>> 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.

There is at least a patch: http://bugs.python.org/issue1194378

Georg