Re: GNUstep - check for reuse address

[Pino Toscano]

In data venerdì 8 gennaio 2016 13:34:46, Samuel Thibault ha scritto:
> Svante Signell, on Fri 08 Jan 2016 13:27:49 +0100, wrote:
> > > Depends on how the test is made. SO_REUSEADDR is defined in bits/socket.h 
> > > but
> > > is
> > > not functional (yet).
> > 
> > To clarify; For pflocal. For pfinet it should work.
> 
> Ok.  It seems to be accepted for local sockets on Linux, but it doesn't
> do anything.  I don't see what it would be supposed to mean anyway, so
> gnustep should really not be using that for local sockets.

IIRC it should unlink the existing socket path before trying to bind the
unix socket to the specified path -- otherwise you'd get EADDRINUSE.

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Pino Toscano

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