From: Serge Belyshev <belyshev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:24:04 +0400 > But my socket is unbound and I'm connecting to a loopback address, so > I expect the connection to fail if nobody listens on the port I am > connecting to. Yet the connections succeedes on the rare occasion when > the kernel chooses the source port number that matches the destination. At the point you do a connect() you are "listening" on that port and can be connected to. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
