Re: [RFC] EADDRINUSE from bind() on application restart after killing

[Paul Gofman]

On 10/14/22 11:45, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 9:39 AM Paul Gofman <pgofman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think it is documented.
>
> man 7 socket
>
>         SO_REUSEADDR
>                Indicates that the rules used in validating addresses
> supplied in a bind(2) call should allow reuse of local addresses.  For
> AF_INET sockets this means
>                that a socket may bind, except when there is an active
> listening socket bound to the address.  When the listening socket is
> bound to INADDR_ANY with  a
>                specific port then it is not possible to bind to this
> port for any local address.  Argument is an integer boolean flag.
>
> You seem to need another way, so you will have to ask this question in IETF.
Thanks a lot, I think it answers my question, I am afraid I was reading 
this a bit wrong.