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Allow binding privileged ports on Android (issuetracker.google.com)
4 points by anthropodie on May 20, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



This issue was originally opened back in 2009 but was closed twice

2009 - https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36909525

2020 - https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/156966374

2022 - https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/218578943 (this post)

If this is fixed one would be able to host a small blog, ftp, ssh server on the phone. It opens up lot of new possibilities. It's already possible on iOS.


Why did a Google employee leave this comment?

> Could you please send a patch to the upstream Linux kernel mailing list.

Can't this change be done entirely in userspace?




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