Thanks to visit codestin.com
Credit goes to github.com

Skip to content

Correct documentation for AF_PACKET #112339

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Nov 27, 2023
Merged

Correct documentation for AF_PACKET #112339

merged 1 commit into from
Nov 27, 2023

Conversation

eltoder
Copy link
Contributor

@eltoder eltoder commented Nov 23, 2023

Protocol in the address tuple should not be in the network-byte-order, because it is converted internally[1].

[1]

addr->sll_protocol = htons((short)protoNumber);


📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://cpython-previews--112339.org.readthedocs.build/

Protocol in the address tuple should *not* be in the network-byte-order, because it is converted internally[1].

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/89ddea4886942b0c27a778a0ad3f0d5ac5f518f0/Modules/socketmodule.c#L2144
@bedevere-app bedevere-app bot added awaiting review docs Documentation in the Doc dir skip news labels Nov 23, 2023
@eltoder
Copy link
Contributor Author

eltoder commented Nov 27, 2023

@gpshead Could you take a look, since you are listed as the maintainer of the socket module?

Copy link
Member

@gpshead gpshead left a comment

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Thanks for cleaning this up!

@gpshead gpshead added skip issue needs backport to 3.11 only security fixes needs backport to 3.12 only security fixes labels Nov 27, 2023
@gpshead gpshead self-assigned this Nov 27, 2023
@gpshead gpshead removed the needs backport to 3.11 only security fixes label Nov 27, 2023
@gpshead gpshead merged commit 562d714 into python:main Nov 27, 2023
@miss-islington-app
Copy link

Thanks @eltoder for the PR, and @gpshead for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.12.
🐍🍒⛏🤖

miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request Nov 27, 2023
Protocol in the address tuple should *not* be in the network-byte-order, because it is converted internally[1].

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/89ddea4886942b0c27a778a0ad3f0d5ac5f518f0/Modules/socketmodule.cGH-L2144

network byte order doesn't make sense for a python level int anyways. It's a fixed size C serialization concept.
(cherry picked from commit 562d714)

Co-authored-by: Eugene Toder <[email protected]>
@bedevere-app
Copy link

bedevere-app bot commented Nov 27, 2023

GH-112477 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.12 branch.

@bedevere-app bedevere-app bot removed the needs backport to 3.12 only security fixes label Nov 27, 2023
@eltoder eltoder deleted the patch-1 branch November 27, 2023 23:45
gpshead pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 27, 2023
Correct documentation for AF_PACKET (GH-112339)

Protocol in the address tuple should *not* be in the network-byte-order, because it is converted internally[1].

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/89ddea4886942b0c27a778a0ad3f0d5ac5f518f0/Modules/socketmodule.cGH-L2144

network byte order doesn't make sense for a python level int anyways. It's a fixed size C serialization concept.
(cherry picked from commit 562d714)

Co-authored-by: Eugene Toder <[email protected]>
aisk pushed a commit to aisk/cpython that referenced this pull request Feb 11, 2024
Protocol in the address tuple should *not* be in the network-byte-order, because it is converted internally[1].

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/89ddea4886942b0c27a778a0ad3f0d5ac5f518f0/Modules/socketmodule.c#L2144

network byte order doesn't make sense for a python level int anyways. It's a fixed size C serialization concept.
Glyphack pushed a commit to Glyphack/cpython that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2024
Protocol in the address tuple should *not* be in the network-byte-order, because it is converted internally[1].

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/89ddea4886942b0c27a778a0ad3f0d5ac5f518f0/Modules/socketmodule.c#L2144

network byte order doesn't make sense for a python level int anyways. It's a fixed size C serialization concept.
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
docs Documentation in the Doc dir skip issue skip news
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants