change file descriptor for socket in python

Question

Hello everybody

I'm trying to manually create the file descriptor associated with a socket in python and then loaded directly into memory with mmap. Create a file into memory with mmap is simple, but I can not find a way to associate the file with a socket.

Anyone know how?

thank you very much.

Answer 1

Why do you want to load this into memory using mmap? If you are on a unix variant, you can create a unix socket which is a file descriptor which can be used just like any other socket. A socket and a memory-mapped file are two distinct entities - it is probably not a good idea to try and mix them.

Perhaps it would be helpful to take a step back and discuss what you are trying to do at a higher level.

Answer 2

Thanks for your responses.

The problem I have is I can not make more of a number of sockets for python (or operating system) I get the error: "[errno 24] Too many open files."

I think the error is because I can not create more file descriptors on disk, so I want to create them in memory. To avoid this limitation.

any suggestions?

thank you very much, again.