On 09 Mar 2012, at 16:56, Philippe Marschall wrote: > On 03/09/2012 04:44 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: >> Most socket API's allow for the creation of a server socket on the next >> available port, often by specifying 0 instead of a port. When the socket is >> bound, one can retrieve the local port and let the client(s) know. I tried >> to do that in Pharo today, and these steps seem to work, by accepting an >> incoming connection gives a primitive failed. > > Stupid n00b question, isn't 0 a valid port number?
I don't think so, in Java: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/ServerSocket.html#ServerSocket() ServerSocket public ServerSocket (int port) throws IOException Creates a server socket, bound to the specified port. A port of 0 creates a socket on any free port. […]
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