That is what I said. Everyone ran off and had this long discussion about
this while I was sleeping - I never considered it an issue, the client
has been picking up random ports and trying them since forever...

(I think we are beginning to get too many C coders around here - the "this
little detail must be made as complicated as humanly possible" agenda
seems very high).

On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:33:30PM -0400, LeaveMeHigh at aol.com wrote:
> I think everyone is overthinking this.  Generate a random port number, check 
> it against a services list (why do you need to read this from the filesystem, 
> just include it in the code itself or with the distribution), try to bind a 
> listening socket to it, and finally ask the user for confirmation (or not, 
> doesn't matter).  That's all you have to do.
> 
> -lmh
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