sendmsg(2) and recvmsg(2) support for Python.
| Variable | ReceivedMessage | Undocumented |
| Function | sendmsg | Send a message on a socket. |
| Function | recvmsg | Receive a message on a socket. |
| Function | getSocketFamily | Return the family of the given socket. |
Send a message on a socket.
| Parameters | socket | The socket to send the message on. (type: Socket) |
| data | Bytes to write to the socket. (type: bytes) | |
| ancillary | Extra data to send over the socket outside of the normal datagram or stream mechanism. By default no ancillary data is sent. (type: List[Tuple[int, int, bytes]]) | |
| flags | Flags to affect how the message is sent. See the MSG_ constants in the sendmsg(2) manual page. By default no flags are set. (type: int) | |
| Returns | The return value of the underlying syscall, if it succeeds. (type: int) | |
Receive a message on a socket.
| Parameters | socket | The socket to receive the message on. (type: Socket) |
| maxSize | The maximum number of bytes to receive from the socket using the datagram or stream mechanism. The default maximum is 8192. (type: int) | |
| cmsgSize | The maximum number of bytes to receive from the socket outside of the normal datagram or stream mechanism. The default maximum is 4096. (type: int) | |
| flags | Flags to affect how the message is sent. See the MSG_ constants in the sendmsg(2) manual page. By default no flags are set. (type: int) | |
| Returns | A named 3-tuple of the bytes received using the datagram/stream mechanism, a list of tuples giving ancillary received data, and flags as an int describing the data received. (type: ReceivedMessage) | |