- The socket module now provides the functions inet_pton and inet_ntop
for converting between string and packed representation of IP addresses.
See SF patch #658327.
This still needs a bit of work in the doc area, because it is not
available on all platforms (especially not on Windows).
Rather than trying to second-guess the various error returns
of a second connect(), use select() to determine whether the
socket becomes writable (which means connected).
inet_aton() rather than inet_addr() -- the latter is obsolete because
it has a problem: "255.255.255.255" is a valid address but
indistinguishable from an error.
(I'm not sure if inet_aton() exists everywhere -- in case it doesn't,
I've left the old code in with an #ifdef.)
The attached patch enables shared extension
modules to build cleanly under Cygwin without
moving the static initialization of certain function
pointers (i.e., ones exported from the Python
DLL core) to a module initialization function.
Additionally, this patch fixes the modules that
have been changed in the past to accommodate
Cygwin.
On HPUX, Solaris, Tru64 (Dec UNIX), and IRIX (I think),
O_NONBLOCK is the POSIX version of non-blocking I/O
which is what we want.
On Linux and FreeBSD (at least), O_NONBLOCK and O_NDELAY are the same.
So this change should have no negative effect on those platforms.
Tested on Linux, Solaris, HPUX.
Thanks to Anders Qvist for diagnosing this problem.
