More questions on sockets

[Sean Casey]

In article <1991Jun14.162215.14657 at ncsu.edu>, jwb at cepmax.ncsu.edu (John W. Baugh Jr.) writes:
>   - when trying to bind a stream socket I sometimes get an error
>     "Address already in use", even though I've closed the socket (for
>     example, when I run the program in succession a couple of times).
>     Is there something else I have to do?

This should be in a frequently asked questions list :).

Check out the SO_REUSEADDR option for setsockopt(). Hint: use it after
socket() and before bind().

Sean
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