Re: global and channel requests -- more information on failure, more flexibility on success

[nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost (Niels Möller)]

"Joseph Galbraith" <galb-list%vandyke.com@localhost> writes:

> I actually I think the new messages are for the best,
> since the old drafts didn't actually disallow binding
> to port 0 (even if it wasn't specifically allowed either.)

A datapoint: lshd checks that the port is larger than 1024. I don't know
what other servers do. The reason lshd does that is that it usually
runs as root at the time it binds the port. 

/Niels