On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:16:54AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote:
But seriously, there's an implication in this thread that there
will be
work happening to give stuff a path to ask for an open port. Where can we
follow along with that effort? Starting with, say, how I might change
`nikola runserver` or `django-admin runserver` to ask for the port, and
ending with the resulting UI that asks me for approval?
The functionality for a program to ask for an open port already
exists. It is called bind(2).