socketpair() missing ?

[Dave Brueck]

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Peter Hansen wrote:

> Philippe Biondi wrote:
> >
> > It seems that the socketpair() function is missing from the standard
> > python librairy.
> >
> > I there a reason ? Will it be integrated in future releases ?
> > Am I missing something ?
>
> I searched to find what this function does, and found a zillion
> answers, but I don't seem to see any explanation of *why* you
> would want to do that.
>
> What's the use case for socketpair()?

<randomguess> They could be handy for IPC with a forked child - call
socketpair, fork, parent and child use them for messaging.</randomguess>