iotop for EPEL5

[BJ Dierkes]

Hello all,

Per the EPEL meeting last week we are attempting to get iotop working  
for EL5.  The issue is that iotop requires Python >= 2.5 in order to  
use the builtin netlink support (of the socket module).  That said,  
there is also a fallback on the '_netlink C module':

 From /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/iotop/netlink.py:

#------------------------------------------------
try:
     # try to use python 2.5's netlink support
     _dummysock = socket.socket(socket.AF_NETLINK, socket.SOCK_RAW, 0)
     _dummysock.bind((0, 0))
     del _dummysock
     def _nl_bind(descriptor, addr):
         descriptor.bind(addr)
     def _nl_getsockname(descriptor):
         return descriptor.getsockname()
     def _nl_send(descriptor, msg):
         descriptor.send(msg)
     def _nl_recv(descriptor, bufs=16384):
         return descriptor.recvfrom(bufs)
except socket.error:
     # or fall back to the _netlink C module
     try:
         import _netlink
     except ImportError:
         raise ImportError("This is neither python 2.5 nor is "
                           "the _netlink C module available!")
     def _nl_bind(descriptor, addr):
         _netlink.bind(descriptor.fileno(), addr[1])
     def _nl_getsockname(descriptor):
         return _netlink.getsockname(descriptor.fileno())
     def _nl_send(descriptor, msg):
         _netlink.send(descriptor.fileno(), msg)
     def _nl_recv(descriptor, bufs=16384):
         return _netlink.recvfrom(descriptor.fileno(), bufs)
#------------------------------------------------



I can't figure out where the '_netlink C module' would be provided, as  
I was hoping to implement that if possible.  All Google hits seem to  
reference this code.

Any ideas?


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derks