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

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Date:	Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:23:45 -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 3:18 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Phillip Susi <psusi@...ntu.com> 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.


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