[zeromq-dev] [PATCH] Moved tests off 5555 (conflict with Eclipse)

[Andrew Hume]

i hate these looking for random ports programs!

the problem is that i have a program that uses a port that i have carefully chosen
but occasionally is left open for a minute (while i wait
for linux to clear things up) and some bastard program sneaks in and uses it.

the least you can do is pick a port in teh recommended range for this
(isn't it roughly 48K-63K?)

On May 4, 2011, at 7:16 AM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:

> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Martin Lucina <mato at kotelna.sk> wrote:
> 
>> On the other hand, if the idiom is supported by libzmq then it can pass
>> a port of 0 directly to bind(2), which results in the OS allocating you a
>> free port. However, this requires a getsockname() API of some kind to get
>> the allocated port number.
> 
> Very true. You could get the port number via a getsockopt, no?
> 
> Having this in libzmq would be ideal. But I doubt it'll ever get into
> 2.x, and at least a start would be to have a common abstraction for
> language bindings. We can always implement that "natively" afterwards.
> 
> IMO looking for a random free port above 10K would work well and not be fragile.
> 
> -Pieter
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