Add constants for ioctl request codes

[serhiy-storchaka]

BPO	22698
Nosy	@pitrou, @serhiy-storchaka

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title = 'Add constants for ioctl request codes'
updated_at = <Date 2015-07-21.07:22:52.829>
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[serhiy-storchaka]

It would be useful to expose ioctl request codes (Linux specific?) [1] at Python level.

In particular this will allow to determine MAC address in uuid at Python level without using ctypes or calling external programs. [2]

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_list.2.html
[2] http://code.activestate.com/recipes/439094-get-the-ip-address-associated-with-a-network-inter/

[neologix]

Adding ioctl constants is fine.
However, I think that if we do this, it'd be great if we could also
expose this information in a module (since psutil inclusion was
discussed recently), but that's probably another issue.

[mrl]

In addition to ioctl constants from Linux, it would also be very helpful
to add the constants from NetBSD et al. that are described in their ioctl(2) man page: http://man.netbsd.org/man/ioctl+2+NetBSD-current

Thank you!