In UDP land (which I assume you're using - doesn't make sense in TCP, does it?), I have to set setsockopt( ..., SO_REUSEADDR, ... ) in order to open a socket more than once. calling sequence: socket(); setsockopt(SO_REUSEADDR); bind( interface ); // bind to group for mcast I'm not sure if I answered your question. Nat On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 12:07, Vasisht Tadigotla wrote: > > Hi, > > i'm doing the following steps, > > 1. open a socket on some remote server > 2. set it to be non-blocking > 3. connect to that socket > 4. do a select on the socket > 5. read from the socket > 6. connect to the socket again > 7. read from the socket > > and as expected a EINPROGRESS error is thrown on step 3. After I do a > select() and read from that socket, I try to connect to it again and it > connects without throwing an EISCONN error in linux, though if I try to > read from it it throws a EAGAIN error. Shouldn't it throw an error when I > try to connect to it a second time ? Am I missing something here. > > > TIA, > > Vasisht > > > Please CC as I'm not the list. > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- _________________________________________ Nat Ersoz Myrio Corporation -o) nat.ersoz@myrio.com Cell: 425-417-5182 /\\ Phone: 425.897.7278 Fax: 425.897.5600 _\_V 3500 Carillon Point Kirkland, WA 98033 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
