Re: [bug-inetutils] netstat

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   If we can't rely on error messages (which seems like the best approach
   -- then we will test this aspect of the tool as well), we should be able
   to write a small tool that tries to bind a particular port.  This tool
   could replace InetUtils' use of netstat.

I wrote such a tool once, port-open-p, but never had time to polish it
up and commit it.  I think we should do this after release, but then
I'm not in a hurry.  Such a tool would be useful, but syslogd should
exist gracefully if it can't open a port and report an error even if
we have such a tool.