Bug#677000: ITP: python-passfd -- Python extension to pass file descriptors across UNIX domain sockets

[Martín Ferrari <tincho@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Martín Ferrari" <tincho@debian.org>

* Package name    : python-passfd
  Version         : 0.2
  Upstream Author : "Martín Ferrari" <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://code.google.com/p/python-passfd/
* License         : GPLv2
  Programming Lang: Python, C.
  Description     : Python extension to pass file descriptors across UNIX domain sockets

This simple extension provides two functions to pass and receive file
descriptors across UNIX domain sockets, using the BSD-4.3+ sendmsg() and
recvmsg() interfaces. Direct bindings to sendmsg() and recvmsg() are not
provided, as the API does not map nicely into Python.

Please note that this only supports BSD-4.3+ style file descriptor passing, and
was only tested on Linux.