Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:27:51 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> To: David.Johnston@vviuh221.vvi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thanks for the good book and newbie question ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009051822150.21413-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> In-Reply-To: <10009051616.AA02890@vviuh221.vvi.com>
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, David Johnston wrote: > Hi Again FreeBSD: > > > UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, second Edition. > > I wrote my first client/server sub-system using the book's examples. It is so cool! > > Now I need to ask the occasional question. Is there a better freebsd mail > list for these type of questions? The one I have now is the following: > > When I kill the server then immediately restart it then bind gives "bind > error: Address already in use". But if I wait for about 1 minute then I can > start the server up again. How do I make it such that bind will "figure it > out" right away, or (put another way) why can't bind figure out that the > address and port are no longer in use? The answer is on the same book, in the chapter 7 (socket options). You need to enable the SO_REUSEADDR option in the socket. see also setsockopt(2). > > Sincerely, > > David Johnston > djohn@vvi.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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