hoe to build a patched socketmodule.c

[jacopo mondi]

Roger Binns wrote:
> jacopo mondi wrote:
>> Hi all, I need to patch socketmodule.c (the _socket module) in order to
>> add support to an experimental socket family.
> 
> You may find it considerably easier to use ctypes since that will avoid
> the need for any patching.  You'll also be able to control how read and
> write are done (eg read vs recvfrom vs recvmsg vs readv).  You can use
> os.fdopen to convert your raw file descriptor into a Python file object
> if appropriate.
> 
> If you do use ctypes then you'll only need to distribute pure Python
> source code.
> 
> Roger

Wait a minute, am I confused or ctypes seems to be unusless for my needs?
Ctypes wraps a system shared object (as libc is) and gives you the
possibility to access its functions. What have I to wrap? the
fuctionalities I need to use are those exposed by the kernel via
sys/socket.h haeder (socket, bind, connect etc.).
Maybe I could wrapp _socket.so (I think it's possible) but seems to be
unuseless because I need to modify, for example, the parameters that
_socket.so passes to the socket() function in order to create a socket
owned by the new socket family I'm actualy experimenting.
Hope it's clear what I'm trying to explain...

Thanks anyway, but ctypes doen't seem to fit my needs..

cheers
	jacopo