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Date:	Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:58:33 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	dean gaudet <dean@...tic.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why would EPIPE cause socket port to change?

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:26:52PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> Why does write cause an autobind? One would think that on a
> SOCK_STREAM socket, the write should just fail with ENOTCONN

The autobind is occuring in generic code, i.e., inet_sendmsg().
It will subsequently fail because the socket is not connected.

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