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Author	phr
Date	2003年09月29日.19:58:43
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The socket module doesn't seem to support the sendmsg operation for AF_UNIX sockets, at least in Python 2.2.2 under Linux. This is needed to send ancillary messages to sockets. Those in turn allow a process to see the user id of its peer, allows sending file descriptors to other processes (needed for anything like User Mode Linux so that non-root processes can open privileged ports), and so forth.

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The socket module doesn't seem to support the sendmsg 
operation for AF_UNIX sockets, at least in Python 2.2.2 
under Linux. This is needed to send ancillary messages 
to sockets. Those in turn allow a process to see the 
user id of its peer, allows sending file descriptors to 
other processes (needed for anything like User Mode 
Linux so that non-root processes can open privileged 
ports), and so forth.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008年01月20日 09:59:27	admin	link	issue814689 messages
2008年01月20日 09:59:27	admin	create