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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4 tcp autobind problem
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:22:09 -0700
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Once connect() has been called on a socket, you may not ever again
perform any action that would try to connect that socket.

Said another way, a socket that has failed to connect() is a socket
that you may not use in any usable way ever again except to close
that file descriptor.