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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