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The \member{st_flags} member is also available, if the platform supports it.
% XXX patch 1180695, 1212117
+\item The \module{socket} module now supports \constant{AF_NETLINK}
+sockets on Linux, thanks to a patch from Philippe Biondi.
+Netlink sockets are a Linux-specific mechanism for communications
+between a user-space process and kernel code; an introductory
+article about them is at \url{http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7356}.
+In Python code, netlink addresses are represented as a tuple of 2 integers,
+\code{(\var{pid}, \var{group_mask})}.
+
\item New module: \module{spwd} provides functions for accessing the
shadow password database on systems that support it.
% XXX give example