Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:35:51 -0300, jacopo mondi <mo...@cs.unibo.it> > escribió: > >> Is there a reason why there is no ioctl interface for socket either then >> for windows platform? It's technical issues or what else?? > > I don't completely understand your question. On Windows, you can use > socket.ioctl with sockets, and DeviceIoControl (from the pywin32 package) > with other files. On Linux, you have fcntl.ioctl that works with any kind > of file. > Ok, thanks a lot, my question was because I didn't know about fcntl.ioct, I thought that ioctl wrapping was implemented inside socketmodule.c as 'bind', 'connect', 'accept' etc. are, and I was disoriented because no documentation for socket usage on Linux nor the code have references about ioctl, except for windows.
I hope the reason why you didn't completely understood my question is not my english, if it be so I'm sorry and I ask anyone to correct me, it's the only way to improve ;) thanks a lot jacopo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list