Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 16:29:39 -0600 From: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) To: mgessner@aristar.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: bind(2): address already in use -- how to fix? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970110162939.jlemon@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <199701102105.QAA23987@home.winc.com>; from mgessner@aristar.com on Jan 10, 1997 16:05:55 -0500 References: <199701102105.QAA23987@home.winc.com>
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mgessner@aristar.com writes: > in sig_chld, I get reported to me several pids that WERE NOT > the result of a fork() call by the server. Why is this? Most probably, they are the pids of the processes that you have spawned with popen(). popen() does an implicit fork/exec. > "Address already in use" You need to set SO_REUSEADDR in order to re-use the socket. See your copy of Stevens. -- Jonathan
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