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

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Date:	Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:17:12 -0500
From:	Phillip Susi <psusi@...ntu.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bind() should not return -EADDRINUSE

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On 12/11/2014 3:13 PM, David Miller wrote:
> 
> But you don't know ahead of time what the processes are going to 
> do, that's the problem.
> 
> You cannot leave the port available and pretend to another process 
> that he will be able to use it.
> 
> Port allocation failures must be signalled at bind() time.

Says who?  The man pages for both listen() and connect() say they can
return EADDRINUSE.


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