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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reserving "special" port numbers in the kernel ?
Date: 16 Nov 2002 01:11:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1037405489.8019.10.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uel9mbcyi.fsf@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

Le sam 16/11/2002 à 01:00, Arun Sharma a écrit :
> One of the Intel server platforms has a magic port number (623) that
> it uses for remote server management. However, neither the kernel nor
> glibc are aware of this special port.
> 
> As a result, when someone requests a privileged port using
> bindresvport(3), they may get this port back and bad things happen.
> 
> Has anyone run into this or similar problems before ? Thoughts on
> what's the right place to handle this issue ?

run a dummy app at startup which reserves that port ?


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-16  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-16  0:00 Reserving "special" port numbers in the kernel ? Arun Sharma
2002-11-16  0:11 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2002-11-16  0:53   ` Arun Sharma
2002-11-16  0:58     ` Sean Neakums
2002-11-16  1:00     ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-16  1:46       ` Arun Sharma
2002-11-16  2:03         ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-16  2:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-17 16:37   ` Arun Sharma
2002-11-17 22:59     ` Alan Cox
2002-11-16  7:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2002-11-17  0:03 ` Chris Wedgwood

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