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

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Date:	Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:34:14 -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 3:25 PM, David Miller wrote:
> You will definitely break programs that look for a locally
> available port by iterating over bind() calls.
> 
> Sorry, this is not changing, no matter how strongly you may wish
> it to.

According to this very nice post, it is how BSD does it, at least when
you specify SO_REUSEADDR:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/14388707/884259

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