netdev - Re: binding UDP port 0 with SO

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Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2012 21:05:15 +0200
From:	"Tobias S. Josefowitz" <t.josefowitz@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: binding UDP port 0 with SO_REUSEADDR

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> There is no value using 'port 0' and REUSEADDR on UDP, really.

And nobody ever makes mistakes, so why not surprise them for even more
than they are in for.

"Looking into src/pkg/net/sock.go (func socket) I see that SO_REUSEADDR
is set unconditionally to all types of sockets." --
http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=1692

Anyway, I'm out of this now.

Tobi
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