How to know when it's possible to bind a socket on an unprivileged port?

[Giampaolo Rodola']

On 11 Dic, 19:09, "Giampaolo Rodola'" <gne... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> For a purpose of testing I need a function which could tell me whether
> it is possible to bind sockets on privileged ports or not.
> I wrote down this simple function. It seems reasonably working to me
> but I'd like to hear your opinion first.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> import socket, errno
>
> def bind_on_privileged_ports(port=21):
>     """Return True if it is possible to bind sockets on privileged
>     ports (< 1024)."""
>     try:
>         s = socket.socket()
>         s.bind(("", port))
>     except socket.error, err:
>         if err[0] == errno.EACCES:
>             return False
>     s.close()
>     return True
>

Just to clarify: I don't really care *which* port to use for binding
the socket. I just need to try to bind a socket on a free random
privileged port and return True if that has been possible.


--- Giampaolo
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