Getsockopt buffer initialisation

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I have the following function in C :

struct mptcp_subflow_data inf;
memset(&inf, 0, sizeof(inf));
inf.size_subflow_data = sizeof(struct mptcp_subflow_data);
inf.size_user = 0;
socklen_t optlen = sizeof(inf);
if (getsockopt(fd, 284, 2, &inf, &optlen) < 0){
	if (errno != EOPNOTSUPP){
        return -1;
	}
    return -2;
}
return inf.num_subflows;

I’m trying to achieve the same thing in Python, however I realized that socketmodule uses another function to initialize the buffer. Is there any way to achieve this in Python3 ? The goal is to initialise the buffer passed on to the C extension ?

returned = sock.getsockopt(284, 2, 16)
print(struct.unpack("=IIII", returned))

The above solution doesn’t work because we need to initialize the buffer passed on
Thank you very much in advance.

2

The code returns only the buflen that getsockopt uses.
I would expect the kernel to fill in all the fields of the buffer.
In which case it does not need to be zeroed out.
Is my assumption wrong?

3

Correct it’s a mistake on my part