Issue 984654: socket module does not support AF_NETLINK (original) (raw)

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Created on 2004-07-03 16:15 by doko, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg46308 - (view)	Author: Matthias Klose (doko) *	Date: 2004-07-03 16:15
[forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/257444] The socket module is missing the AF_NETLINK constant and the associated support, as well as a whole bunch of others. The list of missing address families seems to be: #define AF_ATMPVC 8 /* ATM PVCs */ #define AF_DECnet 12 /* Reserved for DECnet project */ #define AF_NETBEUI 13 /* Reserved for 802.2LLC project*/ #define AF_SECURITY 14 /* Security callback pseudo AF */ #define AF_KEY 15 /* PF_KEY key management API */ #define AF_NETLINK 16 #define AF_ROUTE AF_NETLINK /* Alias to emulate 4.4BSD */ #define AF_ASH 18 /* Ash */ #define AF_ECONET 19 /* Acorn Econet */ #define AF_ATMSVC 20 /* ATM SVCs */ #define AF_SNA 22 /* Linux SNA Project (nutters!) */ #define AF_IRDA 23 /* IRDA sockets */ #define AF_PPPOX 24 /* PPPoX sockets */ #define AF_WANPIPE 25 /* Wanpipe API Sockets */ #define AF_LLC 26 /* Linux LLC */
msg46309 - (view)	Author: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) *	Date: 2004-07-07 14:45
Logged In: YES user_id=11375 This is really a feature request. It would be easy to add the various AF_* constants to the module, but truly supporting all these new families requires appropriate changes to the makesockaddr(), getsockaddrarg(), and getsockaddrlen() functions in Modules/socketmodule.c. I don't know what the address strings/objects for the various families look like, and have no idea where to find such information. If AF_NETLINK is important, we can certainly try to implement that one family. Something obscure like AF_SNA is unlikely to ever be supported in the absence of a patch.
msg46310 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2004-07-17 08:13
Logged In: YES user_id=21627 I think the request is about adding the constants if the system offers them; I have no problems with that.
msg46311 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2004-07-19 17:01
Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Thanks for the patch. Applied as socketmodule.c 1.296.