On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 12:23 +0530, Nupur Malpani wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Nupur Malpani <malpaninupur...@gmail.com> > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name : node-get-port > Version : 2.1.0 > Upstream Author : Sindre Sorhus <sindresor...@gmail.com> (sindresorhus.com > ) > * URL : https://github.com/sindresorhus/get-port > * License : Expat > Programming Lang: JavaScript > Description : Get an available port
Isn't this inherently racy? It looks like it creates a listening socket, closes it, then returns the port that was used. But the port could immediately be allocated by another process, before the caller tries to use it. If I understood correctly, this should not be packaged and whatever depends on it should be fixed to avoid the race condition. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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