<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16437"></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=191100613-20102011>May be I am <SPAN class=hps><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">myopic, but I have not found any tools in the docs to check whether a port is open or closed. After a port is closed, it may survive. It would be handy to have:</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class=191100613-20102011><SPAN class=hps></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=191100613-20102011><SPAN class=hps>1: a procedure that tells whether or not a port is open.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=191100613-20102011><SPAN class=hps>2: a procedure that given a closed port, reopens it or returns its path (or other info about the port, for example, it may be an output-string or a console)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=191100613-20102011><SPAN class=hps></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=191100613-20102011><SPAN class=hps>This can be useful for procedures that accept port arguments and want to check first. Using some tricks I can make these procedures myself in a rather stupid way that I rather would like to avoid (writing the port to an output-string and inspect the output and displaying an empty string while catching a port is closed exception)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=191100613-20102011><SPAN class=hps></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=191100613-20102011><SPAN class=hps>Best wishes, Jos</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>