Subject: Re: bind() should not return -EADDRINUSE

From: Phillip Susi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:23:45 -0500

On 12/11/2014 3:18 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Phillip Susi <[email-masked]> 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.