Subj : Re: recycling telnet serv
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : Jon Desvin
Date : Mon Oct 10 2005 07:49 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

> OK, fair enough, but what I was asking is whether there is a way to tell
> the O/S to drop the socket *now* instead of waiting.

Since you're using *nix I am assuming you have at least a little background
with C code -- before making a call to bind() run something like:

int val = 1 ;

setsockopt( listenSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, (const void*) &val,
sizeof(int) ) ;

This will generally do what you are asking.


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