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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