Reusing Address with Sockets

[Mark Rowe]

On Monday, Nov 11, 2002, at 14:58 Pacific/Auckland, Kuros wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am writing a TCP server program, and everything is working fine, 
> except
> for one minor problem. When I close the program, I cannot reuse the 
> same
> address, I have to change the port it runs on. Now, I've tried to do 
> this:
>
> sock.setsockopt(SO_REUSEADDR, SO_LINGER, 1)

Hello,

That line should be

sock.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1)

The setsockopt man page details this and other socket options.

Mark