Mark, On 13 Jun 2012, at 12:09, Mark Smith wrote:

Hi :),

Does anyone know if there's a way to detect if a Zinc Server doesn't bind to a port, (probably because there's already a server listening on that port), and signal an error?

Thanks a lot,

Mark

Good question. Try server isRunning & server isListening as is done by most unit tests using #withServerDo: HTH, Sven -- Sven Van Caekenberghe http://stfx.eu Smalltalk is the Red Pill

Mark Smith wrote:

Hi :),

Does anyone know if there's a way to detect if a Zinc Server doesn't bind to a port, (probably because there's already a server listening on that port), and signal an error?

Thanks a lot,

Mark

As a backup plan... why not from one code path (perhaps requiring a fork) 1. start Zinc Server 2. generate random magic number 3. connect to server as a client requesting magic number. 4. check returned magic number matches the one from (2)