On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 02:37:49PM -0400, Tim Hudson wrote:
> On 5/07/2014 2:14 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 12:45:37PM -0400, Tim Hudson wrote:
> >> If you have SO_REUSEADDR set and a listener already in place you will
> >> start a new listener
> > No you won't. You will get a bind() error:
> > socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 3
> > setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
> > bind(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(3344),
> > sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = -1 EADDRINUSE (Address already in use)
> >
> > Except on windows it seems.
>
> All the world is not (yet) Linux :-) ... and those semantics were
> defined log ago - and evolved ... and there is also REUSEPORT (added
> later) and a variety of interpretations - but the base REUSEADDR can
> indeed behave that way depending on what platform you are on. Linux has
> its own slightly different interpretation. Some google engineering
> (search) will show the the variety of confusion that this causes in
> cross-platform code.
Are you saying BSD has different behavior than Linux, other than
Linux requiring that it's also set on the old socket?
Kurt
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