[Vm-dev] Re: Socket listening

[Ian Piumarta]

Hi Bert,

On Jul 1, 2008, at 6:35 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> which means the second socket listens successfully, but on a random  
> port. I verified it is actually listening there using lsof. The  
> SO_REUSEADDR option does not make any difference, btw.
>
> I think I should not rely on it. Also, the same code gives an error  
> (as expected) on Windows.

The behaviour you're seeing seems broken to me; bind() should fail if  
another socket is already bound to the same listening address.  I'll  
take a look.

Cheers,
Ian