Ok, but in case of a restart, you have to wait quite a while. I don't know what's the equivalent of lock files in Windows. But maybe you wrap it as a service - then you can't start it twice at least. But still, another application could open a socket for the same address / port of course...
> > This way I set my own fd which does not have SO_REUSEADDR set in it. > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 4:40 PM <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 22.03.19 00:15, Alberto Garcia wrote: > > The socket has the SO_REUSEADDR so it does not fail when it is > in use. > > I don't know why that's set. Does anyone knows what is the intention > > of it? > > Look here: > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/577885/what-are-the-use-cases-of-so-reuseaddr > > I think it's for the reason the guy there explains: To be able to > reconnect to the same socket without having to wait until TIME_WAIT > state is over. > > > > > -- > Alberto García Illera > > GPG Public Key <https://goo.gl/yshdwh>
