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| author | caavery <cavery@redhat.com> | 2017-09-06 22:18:10 (GMT) |
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| committer | Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> | 2017-09-06 22:18:10 (GMT) |
| commit | effc12f8e9e20d0951d2ba5883587666bd8218e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 7c017ddd36f528c98a36c2b08293eb843194deb9 /Doc/library/socket.rst | |
| parent | 5d578442ed5ba5025e465b384341cb8646ffd819 (diff) | |
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bpo-27584: New addition of vSockets to the python socket module (#2489)
* bpo-27584: New addition of vSockets to the python socket module
Support for AF_VSOCK on Linux only
* bpo-27584: Fixes for V2
Fixed syntax and naming problems.
Fixed #ifdef AF_VSOCK checking
Restored original aclocal.m4
* bpo-27584: Fixes for V3
Added checking for fcntl and thread modules.
* bpo-27584: Fixes for V4
Fixed white space error
* bpo-27584: Fixes for V5
Added back comma in (CID, port).
* bpo-27584: Fixes for V6
Added news file.
socket.rst now reflects first Linux introduction of AF_VSOCK.
Fixed get_cid in test_socket.py.
Replaced PyLong_FromLong with PyLong_FromUnsignedLong in socketmodule.c
Got rid of extra AF_VSOCK #define.
Added sockaddr_vm to sock_addr.
* bpo-27584: Fixes for V7
Minor cleanup.
* bpo-27584: Fixes for V8
Put back #undef AF_VSOCK as it is necessary when vm_sockets.h is not installed.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index c5064e9..42fd7ea 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -153,6 +153,14 @@ created. Socket addresses are represented as follows: .. versionadded:: 3.6 +- :const:`AF_VSOCK` allows communication between virtual machines and + their hosts. The sockets are represented as a ``(CID, port)`` tuple + where the context ID or CID and port are integers. + + Availability: Linux >= 4.8 QEMU >= 2.8 ESX >= 4.0 ESX Workstation >= 6.5 + + .. versionadded:: 3.7 + - Certain other address families (:const:`AF_PACKET`, :const:`AF_CAN`) support specific representations. @@ -395,6 +403,18 @@ Constants .. versionadded:: 3.6 + +.. data:: AF_VSOCK + IOCTL_VM_SOCKETS_GET_LOCAL_CID + VMADDR* + SO_VM* + + Constants for Linux host/guest communication. + + Availability: Linux >= 4.8. + + .. versionadded:: 3.7 + .. data:: AF_LINK Availability: BSD, OSX. |