[plt-scheme] anyone written a web-server app that drops privileges on Unix?

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

>
> Does it even make sense to do that?  At least on XP when I try to
> listen on some random port I get a popup that offers to unblock the
> application -- so even if my user wouldn't have administrator
> privileges there wouldn't be any need for doing that.
>

I forgot that Windows does not have privileged ports.

You are right, this is unnecessary.
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