On Tuesday 13 Jul 2010 20:09:16 Alessandro Salvatori wrote: > shouldn't it say "continue" instead of "return 0" if you fail binding > the current random port attempt?
The zero return status indicates success; we return if we hit a bind success. > why do we do 65536 attempts? it seems kind of arbitrary to me, given they > are all random attempts... The initial attempt is random; subsequent attempts increment by one. The logic is to try up to all of the available 65536 ports (excluding any below 1024), but to use a random starting port to minimise the chance of reusing the same port on consecutive boot attempts. Michael
