[Python-Dev] sendmsg/recvmsg on Mac OS X (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Aug 24 20:50:47 CEST 2011

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:37:20 -0700 Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:

In article <20110824184927.2697b0af at pitrou.net>, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:31:50 +0200 > Charles-François Natali <neologix at free.fr> wrote: > > > The buildbots are complaining about some of tests for the new > > > socket.sendmsg/recvmsg added by issue #6560 for *nix platforms that > > > provide CMSGLEN. > > > > Looks like kernel bugs: > > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1541/index.html > > > > """ > > Yes. Mac OS X 10.5 fixes a number of kernel bugs related to descriptor > > passing > > [...] > > Avoid passing two or more descriptors back-to-back. > > """ > > But Snow Leopard, where these failures occur, is OS X 10.6.

But chances are the build is using the default 10.4 ABI. Adding MACOSXDEPLOYMENTTARGET=10.6 as an env variable to ./configure may fix it.

Does the ABI affect kernel bugs?

Regards

Antoine.

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