linuxfd: Python interface for the Linux system calls eventfd/signalfd/timerfd

Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Frank Abelbeck [email protected]

License: LGPL-3

Platform

Linux (kernel version >= 2.6.27); requires activated kernel options CONFIG_TIMERFD, CONFIG_SIGNALFD, CONFIG_EVENTFD and CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER as well as a recent version of the GNU C Library.

Installation

An ebuild for Gentoo Linux is provided with this package. On any other Linux system this package might be installed using the usual distutils way:

python setup.py install

Usage

After installation a well documented new python module named "linuxfd" is available.

Changelog

• 2020-12-01: adapted to current Abelbeck coding standard

• 2017-03-02: merged changes proposed by robagar (close file descriptors only once)

• 2016-09-27: revised code base; new inotify event string translation method, buffer allocation via posix_memalign, fix of inotify_event->name handling, compiler now uses -Wall

• 2016-09-26: fixed variable init problem, added support for GIT portage version

• 2016-09-25: added inotify support; v1.4.1: removed small but important typo

• 2016-07-23: fixed float <-> timespec conversion issues; v1.2 suffered from a type but pypi would not let me replace the source tar ball

• 2016-07-06: merged changes proposed by palaviv (make linuxfd thread-safe)

• 2014-01-22: inital commit