Re: Listening sockets not always closing?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec 20 19:23, Craig Davison wrote:
> Hate to reply to my own message, but I missed something...
> 
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Craig Davison wrote:
> > I created a small test program to illustrate this. Basically, in a loop, I
> > create a SOCK_STREAM socket, call bind() and then listen(), check the
> > output of netstat, and then close the socket. It works on several
> > versions of Linux, and Windows >= 2000 SP 2, but bind fails with
> > EADDRINUSE the second time through the loop on Windows <= 2000 SP1.
> 
> It appears that the test program fails with up to Windows 2000 SP4.
> Windows XP still works. My observation that SP3/SP4 worked was based on
> some production code where I first saw this problem, not the minimal test
> code I posted here. Sorry for the confusion.
> 
> Can anyone with Win 2000 SP4 reproduce this?

I can't.  Your testcase works fine on my W2K SP4 test system.  As for
earlier Service Pack stages, I can't tell for the lack of a test system.
As Larry mentioned, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC.


Corinna

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