[Python-Dev] sendmsg/recvmsg on Mac OS X

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<CAH_1eM30T-8g9UBdPRuMkSL_YiScLPuiFFz32Z4W0y1PcJj4pA at mail.gmail.com>,
 Charles-Francois Natali <cf.natali at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But Snow Leopard, where these failures occur, is OS X 10.6.
> 
> *sighs*
> It still looks like a kernel/libc bug to me: AFAICT, both the code and
> the tests are correct.
> And apparently, there are still issues pertaining to FD passing on
> 10.5 (and maybe later, I couldn't find a public access to their bug
> tracker):
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/Darwin-dev/2008/Feb/msg00033.html
> 
> Anyway, if someone with a recent OS X release could run test_socket,
> it would probably help. Follow ups to http://bugs.python.org/issue6560

I was able to do a quick test on 10.7 Lion and the 8 test failures still 
occur regardless of deployment target.  Sorry, I don't have time to 
further investigate.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org