* Alan Bateman: > On 04/10/2019 17:03, Florian Weimer wrote: >> : >> The kernel will do it atomically during connect, so there is no race >> condition. With the change above, the port is selected and opened, >> packets can arrive (from arbitrary addresses), and only then the socket >> is bound to the remote address.
> I don't see an issue here as packets in the socket buffer are read and > discarded after the address association is setup in the kernel. On Solaris, yes, but historically not on Linux. I see a flush for the transmission queue, but not the reception queue. But given that the DatagramChannelImpl code flushes the queue manually after connect, that difference really should not matter. Thanks, Florian
