Re: bind() should not return -EADDRINUSE

From: Phillip Susi <redacted>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:23:45 -0500

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On 12/11/2014 3:18 PM, David Miller wrote:

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From: Phillip Susi <redacted> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014
15:17:12 -0500

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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.

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.