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[Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2012-09-11 18:47, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

>    b) --port is pretty obvious if we are going to be starting a server,
>       we need to know where to talk to it. We can use the
>      'socket.socket()' bind-but-don't-listen trick to get a new-random
>      port that we know is not already in use.

The ideal way to talk to it in tests and dev runs would be through a 
Unix domain socket, but that's probably a bit much to ask for.


Jeroen