Add support for the send/recvmsg API to the socket module. Patch by David Watson and Heiko Wundram. (Closes #6560)
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+- Issue #6560: The sendmsg/recvmsg API is now exposed by the socket module
+  when provided by the underlying platform, supporting processing of
+  ancillary data in pure Python code.
+
 - Issue #12326: On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version
   anymore. It is now always 'linux', instead of 'linux2' or 'linux3' depending
   on the Linux version used to build Python.