Bill Janssen wrote:
> Bill Janssen <bill.janssen@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> I tried applying this patch to a clean SVN checkout of the 2.6 trunk on
> an OS X Leopard machine and it works (except for the part which patches
> configure.in).  I then built the source tree and ran the test_socket
> test, which also worked fine.  I don't see any tests for the specific
> functionality in the patch, or any patch to the documentation of the
> socket module.
>   

Good to hear of your build success on OS X, don't know about 
configure.in off the top of my had.

Exercising the API fully requires an SSM capable multicast LAN.

It's been a few months, as far as I can remember I did add the ssm 
methods and arguments to the built-in documentation for the socket object?