Re: Reserving "special" port numbers in the kernel ?

[Xavier Bestel]

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 ?