From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 11 16:40:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF441065674; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:40:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F138FC17; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:40:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@FreeBSD.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5840420CC44; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:22:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:22:41 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: +8teh+E1c9SDoXGUnypxZH51mrbeXvzkorAHXtJd1aSK 1231690960 Received: from empiric.lon.incunabulum.net (82-35-112-254.cable.ubr07.dals.blueyonder.co.uk [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C3776133F3; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:22:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <496A1CCE.90701@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:22:38 +0000 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Attila Nagy References: <200901091602.n09G2Jj1061164@svn.freebsd.org> <4967A500.30205@fsn.hu> <4967B6D9.90001@elischer.org> <4967C539.2060803@fsn.hu> <49686A30.4000205@fsn.hu> <4968E8B4.9090309@fsn.hu> In-Reply-To: <4968E8B4.9090309@fsn.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adrian Chadd , src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Robert Watson , Julian Elischer , svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r186955 - in head/sys: conf netinet X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:40:58 -0000 Attila Nagy wrote: > ... > Do you know anything else which can do that now with an easy API > (accessible from high level languages like perl or python)? I sent a patch to the Python guys to implement the protocol-independent multicast socket API a good while back. It takes a long time to get feedback unless you're "in the loop" with the current development version of Python and know the developers. Adding support to Python for socket options itself isn't terribly difficult -- the socket module is reasonably lightweight C glue code -- it just takes time to jive with their development process, it seems. Having said that, their reference platform(s) already implement these particular socket options, so I guess it may just be down to lack of interest/time, which does happen... cheers BMS