On 7/27/05, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:
Multiple users can start servers on the same machine, so assigning a
"standard" port is likely to conflict. It is better to let the socket
library choose a free socket. The client will be reading it from a file
anyway, so the user does not need to know what port has been chosen.
OK but, what about connecting to a remote server? You don't need read
access to the filesystem to do it, do you? How's that currently done?
You need to be able to transfer the authorization file somehow.