>> I don't have the time to look it up right now, but I remember seeing a /proc entry that removed the <1024 limit.
> There is no such record (I naively thought so too). You can check the Linux source.
Ok, I thought I remembered seeing it at some point in the past, I may have mixed it up with the ability to bind to IP addresses that aren't on the box <shrug>
I wonder how quickly someone could whip up a patch to add this ;-)
seriously, has this been discussed and rejected, or has nobody bothered to try and submit something like this?