Matt Kern schrieb: > I was looking around for an interface to POSIX capabilities from Python > under Linux. I couldn't find anything that did the job, so I wrote the > attached PosixCapabilities module. It has a number of shortcomings: > > * it is written using ctypes to interface directly to libcap; > * it assumes the sizes/types of various POSIX defined types; > * it only gets/sets process capabilities; > * it can test/set/clear capability flags. > > Despite the downsides, I think it would be good to get the package out > there. If anyone wishes to adopt it, update it, rewrite it and/or put > it into the distribution, then feel free. As Aahz says: make a distutils package out of it, and upload it to the Cheeseshop. For inclusion into Python, I would rather prefer to see the traditional route: make an autoconf test for presence of these functions, then edit Modules/posixmodule.c to conditionally expose these APIs from posix/os (they are POSIX functions, after all). The standard library should expose them as-is, without providing a convenience wrapper. I believe your implementation has limited portability, due to its usage of hard-coded symbolic values for the capabilites (I guess this is the Linux numbering, right?). Unfortunately, a ctypes-based implementation can't really do much better. Regards, Martin
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