[PATCH]:bindresvport should check /etc/services

[H. J. Lu]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:57:37PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Rajasekhar Inguva wrote:
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> > The glibc routine bindresvport(), in it's current implementation, randomly
> > tries to a bind to a port number in the range 600-1023.
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> And this is the right implementation.  If it's causing problems your
> setup is wrong.
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Not quite, at least the usage of bindresvport in glibc is questionable.
The problem is sunrpc calls bindresvport. Potentially, sunrpc may
grab ports in /etc/service marked for other services. I have seen that
myself. It took me a while to figure out what is going on.


H.J.