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From: murthy@la.excelan.com (M.D. Srinivas Murthy)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Can a receiving application change window size?
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Date: 26 Dec 90 22:35:22 GMT
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In article <87439@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> booloo@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian) writes:
>
>btw, I had previously asked how it was possible for bind() to return EADDRINUSE
>once SO_REUSEADDR had been set on a socket.  Unfortunately, nobody has been able
>to provide (what I consider to be) a satisfactory answer.  I'd still really like
>to know...

It is possible for bind() to return EADDRINUSE evenif the SO_REUSEADDR option 
is set for the socket if the address is already bound to another socket which 
is not in connected state. Once the socket is connected you can bind the same 
address to another socket using SO_REUSEADDR option.

murthy