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Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> Thu, 02 December 2010 14:20 UTC

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Hi,

On 2010-12-2, at 16:06, Eliot Lear wrote:
>> They put that in their code and all of a sudden realize that on many platforms, they need to ask the user for admin rights in order to bind to that port.
>> 
>> They won't be happy.
>> 
>> Right?
> 
> The only circumstances in which this would happen would be if this were
> user-installed code without administrative privileges.  Not bloody
> likely, these days.

quite likely, actually, at least on some platforms. (Drag & drop installing to /Applications on the Mac, for example.)

But I guess neither of is will convince the other. Time for other folks to chime in.

Thanks,
Lars

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