Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> Can you submit a patch against the trunk? There aren't going to be any
> new features in 2.5.
>   

Would a patch against 2.6a2 be OK?

I have had a lot of problems building Python on Gentoo Linux (where I 
developed these patches) w/o using their ebuild system, so I am trying 
to keep things simple.

This stuff isn't really new as such, it's been in Windows, OpenSolaris 
and other OSes for a while now -- and trying to get FreeBSD SSM support 
out the door. I can understand if folk don't want to incorporate it in 
the production releases which most people are using, though, however 
it's still important that it sees the light of day.

Unfortunately the setsourcefilter() APIs are not terribly accessible to 
non C users such as Python without the wrapping, otherwise we end up 
instantiating arrays like we have to for fcntl.ioctl().

Also the plat-linux2 stuff seems to be lagging w.r.t the glibc inet 
defines in IN.py, where much of this stuff would normally appear.

cheers
BMS