Mr. Tomcat wrote:
>I am doing some experimentation and trying to change the range of
>privileged ports in the kernel, so I could make it more restrictive
>(only root can bind to ports < 10000) or less restrictive (any user can
>bind to any port). It seems like there should be a constant defined in
>a .h file somewhere which controls this, but I can't find it. I found
>in /usr/include/netinet/in.h the constant IPPORT_RESERVED = 1024 but I
>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
depending on the distro and for sure in recent glibc, /usr/include/ only
contains user-mode stuff... kernel headers are in kernel tree...
regards
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