X-Received: by 10.66.193.104 with SMTP id hn8mr1484050pac.46.1389814143597; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:29:03 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.snarked.org!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!a5no10775120pbg.1!news-out.google.com!gg4ni4699qab.0!nntp.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:29:03 -0600 Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:28:25 +0200 From: Donkey Hottie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: New Java JDK released References: <52d69e7f$0$2945$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <52d69e7f$0$2945$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-uro6lBJjC9JFNuWQnCE4Ctolspa3VSnTYb6q/Das3/8zi4TozThYTmNwAd0dvXxicWHgCXIn/3bM2Mx!v1RC+8RFmBV0TQ86s1O69oTWFKUw06kRT0sEi6YCGuVn0x2Y7J69fL64/qcwkwLX8GE= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2120 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27297 15.01.2014 16:43, Silvio kirjoitti: > On 01/15/2014 06:45 AM, Roedy Green wrote: >> Java 1.7.9_51 was released today. >> > > Did anyone try it to see what the impact of the restriction for server > sockets to the "ephemeral port range" is? I am running heaps of servlet > container processes on a cluster of Linux servers and this change seems > to prohibit listening on sockets in the range 1024-. > > Why on earth did they do that? > > Silvio > If that is true, it breaks most if not all application servers out there. They are normally run as non root, and listening high ports. -- Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the light bulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.