Re: [Pharo-project] Zinc: Detect failed binds

[Ben Coman]

Mark Smith wrote:
Hi :),
Does anyone know if there's a way to detect if a Zinc Server doesn't bind to a 
port,  (probably because there's already a server listening on that port), and 
signal an error?

Thanks a lot,

Mark

  
As a backup plan... why not from one code path (perhaps requiring a fork)
1. start Zinc Server
2. generate random magic number
3. connect to server as a client requesting magic number. 
4. check returned magic number matches the one from (2)