Issue #14310: inter-process socket duplication for windows

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/socket.py b/Lib/socket.py
index 8b2d1cd..1378b0f 100644
--- a/Lib/socket.py
+++ b/Lib/socket.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Functions:
 socket() -- create a new socket object
 socketpair() -- create a pair of new socket objects [*]
 fromfd() -- create a socket object from an open file descriptor [*]
+fromshare() -- create a socket object from data received from socket.share() [*]
 gethostname() -- return the current hostname
 gethostbyname() -- map a hostname to its IP number
 gethostbyaddr() -- map an IP number or hostname to DNS info
@@ -209,7 +210,6 @@ class socket(_socket.socket):
         self._closed = True
         return super().detach()
 
-
 def fromfd(fd, family, type, proto=0):
     """ fromfd(fd, family, type[, proto]) -> socket object
 
@@ -219,6 +219,14 @@ def fromfd(fd, family, type, proto=0):
     nfd = dup(fd)
     return socket(family, type, proto, nfd)
 
+if hasattr(_socket.socket, "share"):
+    def fromshare(info):
+        """ fromshare(info) -> socket object
+
+        Create a socket object from a the bytes object returned by
+        socket.share(pid).
+        """
+        return socket(0, 0, 0, info)
 
 if hasattr(_socket, "socketpair"):