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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: A call to revise sockets behaviour
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:26:58 -0700
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> A wine developer clearly showed that this option simply doesn't work.
>
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26031#c21
>
> Output of strace:
> getsockopt(24, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [0], [4]) = 0
> setsockopt(24, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
> bind(24, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(43012), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.
> 0.0.0")}, 16) = -1 EADDRINUSE (Address already in use)

The output of netstat -an didn't by any chance happen to still show an 
endpoint in the LISTEN state for that port number did it?

rick jones