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To: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Subject: Re: reserved port behavior change
In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 03 May 1997 05:55:59 PDT.
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 22:36:15 PDT
From: Craig Leres <leres@ee.lbl.gov>
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> Craig Leres wrote:
> > At some point between 2.2 and 2.2.1, the last reserved port used by
> > in_pcbbind() was changed from 512 to 600. The reason I noticed this is
> > because the kernel shell port is 544 and all my kerberos kshell
> > applications stopped working. Although I don't want to install them
> > suid to root, this makes some of them work.
> 
> Huh?  There's some crossed wires somewhere.  The numbers you're referring 
> to that in_pcbbind() uses are only used when an application has been 
> explicitly modified to request assignment of a reserved port by the kernel 
> rather than looping and attempting to bind successive ports in usermode.

Yep, the real problem was caused by a shared library. It's safe to nuke
my bug report...

		Craig