From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: Re: bind() should not return -EADDRINUSE Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:23:45 -0500 Message-ID: <5489FD51.3030609@ubuntu.com> References: <5489F598.9020708@ubuntu.com> <20141211.151302.686998496408277043.davem@davemloft.net> <5489FBC8.4070706@ubuntu.com> <20141211.151804.2024237965934539073.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-qa0-f49.google.com ([209.85.216.49]:47825 "EHLO mail-qa0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758767AbaLKUXw (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:23:52 -0500 Received: by mail-qa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id s7so4135713qap.36 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:23:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20141211.151804.2024237965934539073.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/11/2014 3:18 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Phillip Susi Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 > 15:17:12 -0500 > >> Says who? > > Says multiple decades of precendence. "It has always been broken, so it should stay broken" isn't a very compelling argument. Would it cause programs to break if they get the error at listen() time instead of bind() time ( as the man page indicates it can )? I think not. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUif1OAAoJENRVrw2cjl5RW8YH/0Rmg3JXGHJZr/z9H56F0Tfo m9mGM5THOUIXFaCugiqea/6Y9j1qvZC4OJdoB8Ve/bDTpTa2bs3SHd81eEntVpGI hXoeMw5RQxUuiBpKLmkWp+ma8Cl01qIADkTdRG2F/pPa8ee9xd4Lx0UGV6skUnVP 6HVuqeNxPS1xESQMpUAgO8KLGkvzB1/y8+7iBuc0fINZuox4KX8CVwzQB7d9I+G1 gf+yMaFtsDnNeGrXLKdSj7q+/yV61AgigSt3IeFIdUz+trbZa2W/6vUkBqVPB9bo QEClO9JROTIkkl2ErUyd+bnrKTNJR0/tkOUmqf8JjQhjSnozD/u0JdoQRMvjQtk= =PUUw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----