Ports < 1024 require admin rights on most OS. Never used Mac OS X but maybe it has a mechanism similar to UAC(?) Best Regards,
SZ On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 18:17, Arno Garrels <arno.garr...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently porting the TFtpServer to OS X. > I get error EACCESS on the attempt to bind a socket to port 21 on the Mac, > higher port numbers work fine. > > So I searched the internet and found this: > "When the address type of the socket identified by the socket_descriptor > is AF_INET, the thread must have retrieve, insert, delete, and update > authority to the port specified by the local_address field. When the thread > does not have this level of authority, an errno of EACCES is returned." > > Nice, but does anybody know how to get the required permission? > I started the app with sudo from the terminal but that didn't work either. > Firewall is turned off. > > -- > Arno Garrels > > -- > To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list > please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket > Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be > -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
