<listen> element of the configuration file
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Tue Mar 6 11:10:20 PST 2007
Ralf Habacker wrote:
> On windows the autoport selecting behavior is implemented by using
> port=0 in the listen statement
>
> <listen>tcp:host=localhost,port=0</listen>
>
> using the following patch.
>
Nothing windows-specific here that I see, other than possibly (I don't
know) the details of how we invoke the socket APIs.
I think port=0 should still be disallowed in the text address (instead,
the port attribute should be omitted to have the OS choose the port).
I would make dbus_transport_new_for_tcp_socket accept -1 for the port to
mean "pick a port for me." The address returned from
_dbus_transport_get_address is constructed in new_for_tcp_socket; it
needs to be constructed so it contains the *actual* port that was used.
Then this address can be printed or set in the environment, just as it
is for the unix domain socket address.
The change to _dbus_transport_open_socket just has to allow a port of -1
to be passed to new_for_tcp_socket if the port is not in the address.
Havoc
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