What you need is a 'portd' daemon and a patch to glibc. When a
process tries to open a privileged port and fails, glibc will try to
connect to the portd daemon and let portd open the port on behalf of
the process.
I think this should be regarded as a userland problem since speed
isn't critical.
astor
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