> From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:51:47 +1100 > > And what about patching cygwin! to automatically retry on EADDRINUSE - > if we can detect that the winsock bug is the culprit? That would fix > ssh, squid, telnet, ftp....
As I noted in my message to cygwin-developers, I think this is too hard to patch inside Cygwin. The problem is that once the failure occurs, the socket is bound to a particular local port and can't be rebound to another port, so the socket with the failure is toast. This means that you'd have to burn down the socket and reconstruct a new one to retry the failed connection, without the caller ever noticing. I don't think it's practical to try to do that. jik