Very Computer

>I cannot seem to find a basic piece of informaton for socket connections:
>are there specific ports allocated for user programs to use?
>(Outside of the 256 reserved system ports, I mean).

>It's been suggested to me that 1000+ is fine for use by user programs.

>W.R. Stevens "Unix Network Programming" (pp.303-304) suggests using
>port number above 5000.  Reason being that some of the ports between
>1024 and 5000 may have been already assigned automatically to other
>processes.  System doesn't automatically assign port numbers higher
>than 5000.   If you use the number between 1024-5000, you, therefore
>in rare occasions, may get bind() error if port # you want to use
>happen to be already in use.