Re: How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB servers to connect to each other & Windows?

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 07:25:20 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote :

Is not iOS an unixoid system inside? It is based on Darwin, which is an
open-source Unix-like operating system developed by Apple. It should
have the same limitation binding to ports below 1024 for user apps. That
it doesn't is interesting.

Hi Carlos,

I would agree, especially as I researched the question before asking it.

I couldn't find anything from Apple that says what it does, either way.
Nor from anywhere else.

In fact, everything I could find online said iOS acts like Unix when it
came to privileged ports. And yet, the Apple folks told me otherwise.

Had I trusted them more than I generally do, I may have more easily
accepted what the Apple folks like Jolly Roger claimed; but there's a
mistrust of people like Jolly Roger, especially as he *still* claims that
iOS can graphically display both Wi-Fi and cellular signal strength for all
nearby access points, which it does not - and which it never did.

Sigh. This time, they were right and I was the one who was dead wrong.
Heh heh heh... life throws a turn when an Apple troll is actually correct.