How to reuse TCP listening socket immediately after it was connected at least once?

[Дамјан Георгиевски]

> I have written a socket server and some arbitrary clients. When I
> shutdown the server, and do socket.close(), I cannot immediately start
> it again cause it has some open sockets in TIME_WAIT state. It throws
> address already in use exception at me. I have searched for that in
> google but haven't found a way to solve that.
> 
> Tried
> setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
> but that does not help.

This should work, AFAIK you only need to do it before you call .bind(..) 
on the accept-ing socket



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