continued rresvport trouble on solaris

[Dan Stromberg]

Thanks very much for the modified function that works on linux and
windows.  I'm still having trouble on solaris 8, unfortunately.
Everything works fine with 2.1.2, but with 2.2.1, no rresvport
function I've tried has worked.  I'm beginning to think I should go
back to extending the python socket module to expose the C rresvport
function, but I'm not convinced that will work either, really.

Does anyone have suggestions?  Is anyone else having trouble binding
sockets on Solaris from python?

Carey Evans (careye at spamcop.net) wrote:
>Dan Stromberg wrote:
>> I've been using a modified version of Carey Evans' rresvport function
>> in a printsystem.
>
>I'd actually forgotten writing this.  It's all coming back to me now 
>though.  After a bit of tidying up, I get the version below, which
>works 
>for me with Python 2.1.3 and 2.2.1 on Windows 2000 and Linux.
>
>The main changes from my original version are:
>
>* Fixing the bind() to use a two-element tuple.  Two arguments has 
>always been wrong, but earlier versions of Python let it go.
>* Removing the strange exception handling code.  I have no idea what I 
>was thinking.
>
>> So I got kind of interested in that '' in the bind call.  This is
>> supposed to mean "localhost".  So I changed it to
>> bind(('localhost',port)).
>
>The '' actually means INADDR_ANY, or 0.0.0.0.  (Though for some
>reason, 
>socket.INADDR_ANY is the integer 0, which doesn't work with bind.)
>You 
>could try using '0.0.0.0' instead of the empty string, although it 
>should mean exactly the same thing.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>"""A module to allocate a socket on a reserved port.
>
>Copyright (c) 1998, 2002 Carey Evans.
>
>Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
>documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
>provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
>both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
>supporting documentation."""
>
>import socket, errno
>
>class RResvPortError(Exception):
>     def __str__(self):
>         return 'No reserved ports available'
>
>def rresvport():
>     """rresvport() -> socket
>
>Return a socket with a privileged address bound to it.  On Unix
>systems,
>this can only be done by root.  If no reserved ports are available,
>raise RResvPortError."""
>
>     port = 1023
>     s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>     while port >= 512:
>         try:
>             s.bind(('', port))
>         except socket.error, detail:
>             if detail[0] != errno.EADDRINUSE:
>                 raise
>         else:
>             return s
>         port = port - 1
>
>     raise RResvPortError
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>-- 
>"Every time you misuse it's, ten kittens are KILLED."
>   -- Ben Goodger


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Dan Stromberg                                               UCI/NACS/DCS