Subject: Re: A call to revise sockets behaviour

From: "Artem S. Tashkinov" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:31:56 +0000 (UTC)

Jul 29, 2013 11:27:00 PM, rick wrote:

>> 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
>

By chance - no, nothing is/was listening. You can recreate this test in an order of few
minutes without ever trusting my word.