David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Okay, so to reliably detect the case when nobody else but me is "listening" on that port I should do bind() (with a different port) instead of relying on the kernel, right? -- 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
