2016-08-31 22:31 GMT+02:00 Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org>: > https://bugs.python.org/issue27744 > Add AF_ALG (Linux Kernel crypto) to socket module
This patch adds a new socket.sendmsg_afalg() method on Linux. "afalg" comes from AF_ALG which means "Address Family Algorithm". It's documented as "af_alg: User-space algorithm interface" in crypto/af_alg.c. IHMO the method should be just "sendmsg_alg()", beacuse "afalg" is redundant. The AF_ prefix is only used to workaround a C limitation: there is no namespace in the language, all symbols are in one single giant namespace. I don't expect that a platform will add a new sendmsg_alg() C function. If it's the case, we will see how to handle the name conflict ;-) Victor _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
