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[Python-Dev] Patch reviews

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 17:15:51 EDT 2016 
2016-08-31 22:31 GMT+02:00 Christian Heimes <christian at 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
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