Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] Do not set SO_REUSEADDR on Windows

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 04/09/2013 16:22, Sebastian Ottlik ha scritto:
> This patchset disabels all use of SO_REUSEADDR on Windows. On Windows systems
> the default behavior is equivalent to SO_REUSEADDR on other operating
> systems. SO_REUSEADDR can still be set but results in undesired bahvior
> instead. It may even lead to situations were system behavior is
> unspecified. More information on this can be found at:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms740621.aspx
> 
> I originally encountered this issue when accidentally launching two QEMU
> instances with identical GDB ports at the same time. In which case QEMU won't
> fail as one might expect. I am sending this as RFC as I A) only checked that
> this fixes issues for the GDB server and B) am not sure if this is the correct
> format for this patchset.
> 
> gdbstub: do not set SO_REUSEADDR on Windows
> net: do not set SO_REUSEADDR on Windows
> slirp: do not set SO_REUSEADDR on Windows
> util: do not set SO_REUSEADDR on Windows

Makes sense.

Can you make a different patch that introduces a new function
qemu_set_reuseaddr is include/qemu/sockets.h & util/oslib-*, and makes
it a stub for Windows?

This way we don't have a proliferation of #ifs.

Paolo