RTnet bind failed socket again

[Johannes Holtz via Xenomai]

Hi,

My program opens a RTnet socket successfully but the program gets killed 
by a different issue that has nothing to do with this. However, the 
RTnet socket is still bound. If I try to start the program again i get 
the error "Address already in use". If it would be a normal unix socket 
I would simply call it with SO_REUSEADDR but this is not possible with 
RTnet from what I understand.
My question is why the socket is not unbound after the binding process 
is killed and if there is a way to reclaim this socket. By the way, it 
has to be this socket since the communication partner expects the server 
to listen on this exact port.

Cheers,

Johannes