Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 May 2010 12:01:33 +0800 | From | Cong Wang <> | Subject | Re: [Patch v10 0/3] net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers |
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(Adding Andrew into Cc, hope can hear from him.)
On 05/05/10 18:26, Amerigo Wang wrote: > Changes from the previous version: > - Use 'true' and 'false' for bool's; > - Fix some coding style problems; > - Allow appending lines to bitmap proc file so that it will be > easier to add new bits. > > ------------------> > > This patch introduces /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports which > allows users to reserve ports for third-party applications. > > The reserved ports will not be used by automatic port assignments > (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port number 0). Explicit > port allocation behavior is unchanged. > > There are still some miss behaviors with regard to proc parsing in odd > invalid cases (for "40000\0-40001" all is acknowledged but only 40000 > is accepted) but they are not easy to fix without changing the current > "acknowledge how much we accepted" behavior. > > Because of that and because the same issues are present in the > existing proc_dointvec code as well I don't think its worth holding > the actual feature (port reservation) after such petty error recovery > issues. > >
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