[Pythonmac-SIG] SO_REUSEADDR not work

[Jack Jansen]

On 13 Feb 2004, at 17:37, Samuel M. Smith wrote:

> According to my understanding of the socket library a port can be made 
> reusable or used by another socket
> with the socket option SO_REUSEADDR however I can't seem to get it to 
> work.

I always forget what SO_REUSEADDR means exactly, but it is something 
obscure, I think it only has to do with reusing an (address, port) 
combination that is still in some sort of waiting state (after a 
connnection having aborted, for instance).

I think what you want is SO_REUSEPORT.
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