From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bind() should not return -EADDRINUSE
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:17:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5489FBC8.4070706@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141211.151302.686998496408277043.davem@davemloft.net>
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On 12/11/2014 3:13 PM, David Miller wrote:
>
> But you don't know ahead of time what the processes are going to
> do, that's the problem.
>
> You cannot leave the port available and pretend to another process
> that he will be able to use it.
>
> Port allocation failures must be signalled at bind() time.
Says who? The man pages for both listen() and connect() say they can
return EADDRINUSE.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-11 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-11 19:19 bind() should not return -EADDRINUSE Phillip Susi
2014-12-11 19:23 ` David Miller
2014-12-11 19:50 ` Phillip Susi
2014-12-11 20:13 ` David Miller
2014-12-11 20:17 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2014-12-11 20:18 ` David Miller
2014-12-11 20:23 ` Phillip Susi
2014-12-11 20:25 ` David Miller
2014-12-11 21:34 ` Phillip Susi
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