[fpc-pascal] Browser and exe

[Sven Barth]

2017-05-25 15:14 GMT+02:00 Marcos Douglas B. Santos <md at delfire.net>:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys
> <mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 2. How did you garantee that others applications aren't being using
>>> the same port as your application to avoind conflicts?
>>
>>
>> I looked at the official IANA list of registered port numbers and chose a
>> port number that hasn't been taken yet.
>>
>>    http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
>>
>> Under FreeBSD you can review the /etc/services file. I believe Linux has
>> something similar. Or simply use the URL above.
>
> Thanks for that link, I didn't know.
> But I meant, how do you know if another app is already using a port
> that you want to use?

You'll get an error by the OS if someone is already listening on the
port that you want to listen on yourself.

Regards,
Sven