David, Donna, etal,

Regardless of what the netipc manual says the
emperical evidence suggests this is not currently true
and that any user-mode code can use ipccreate for any
address value 1-32767.

QWEBS is all user-mode code and has been ipccreate-ing
port 80 since December 1995 (mpe/ix 4.0).

I am not sure about bind() in bsd sockets, but I'm sure
someone will be willing to test if need be.

Duane Percox
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>David Burney wrote:

>Yes, tgif.  According to the NetIPC intrinsics manual under
>the explanation of IPCCREATE :

>   "Address values in the range of 30767 to 32767 decimal
>    (%74057 to % 77777) can be used without special
>    capabilities.  In privilaged programs, values in the range
>    1 to 30766 decimal (%1 to %74056) can be used."

>HTH

 On Friday, October 27, 2000 2:40 PM, Donna Garverick  wrote:
 : hi all!
 :
 : i'm trying to remember....
 :  - sockets above/below a certain number (like 1000 maybe)
 : require pm code?  or something like that?
 :  - is this little factoid documented in some manual?
 :
 : tgif        - d