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| author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2006-01-15 16:11:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2006-01-15 16:11:28 (GMT) |
| commit | 4678dc818fe923687d7d52b7d575444c3f339769 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index 0b72f04..8256311 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -406,6 +406,14 @@ now has \member{st_gen} and \member{st_birthtime}. The \member{st_flags} member is also available, if the platform supports it. % XXX patch 1180695, 1212117 +\item The \module{socket} module now supports \constant{AF_NETLINK} +sockets on Linux, thanks to a patch from Philippe Biondi. +Netlink sockets are a Linux-specific mechanism for communications +between a user-space process and kernel code; an introductory +article about them is at \url{http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7356}. +In Python code, netlink addresses are represented as a tuple of 2 integers, +\code{(\var{pid}, \var{group_mask})}. + \item New module: \module{spwd} provides functions for accessing the shadow password database on systems that support it. % XXX give example |