Mark Bixby (and others similarily) wrote:

> For Berkeley sockets bind(), I believe sockets below 1024 require you to do
> GETPRIVMODE() before the bind().
>
> This doesn't appear to be documented in the manual, but it corresponds to the
> Unix bind() behavior where you must be in superuser mode (uid=0) in order to
> bind() to the same low-numbered sockets.

thanks! :-)           - d

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