Python: Shared Libraries and Python Packaging, an Experiment

I’ve been thinking about sharing some thoughts and experiments with the weird science experiment that is memfd_create(). It’s a system call in somewhat recent versions of the Linux kernel—3.17 and later.

First let’s take a trip back in time, and then we’ll return to this system call with what I think is a really fun idea that could be used to explore and maybe improve an inconvenient aspect of Python packaging.