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Date: Mon,  2 Feb 2009 16:54:40 +0000
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From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx as a cpu server?
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why hasn't that old unix restriction been removed yet?
is there any point to it at all any more?
localhost-only announcing i suppose.

2009/2/2 Roman V. Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>:
> On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 20:27 -0800, Russ Cox wrote:
>> as for listening, 9vx by default uses the host ip stack,
>> and plan 9 services tend to use their own port numbers,
>
> And sometimes these port # tend to be < 1024 which means that
> you have to run 9vx as root.
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> Thanks,
> Roman.
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