Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!idec!prlhp1!cattelld
From: cattelld@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (cattelld)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Shutting down sockets - HELP
Message-ID: <632@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
Date: 12 Sep 88 08:09:38 GMT
Reply-To: cattelld@prlhp1.UUCP ()
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill, UK
Lines: 21


HELP !  An apparent flaw in BSD sockets (on an Apollo
workstation) is giving me hassle!

If I open a socket and bind an address to it and the program
subesequently crashes, how can I release that address from its
original use so I can reuse it on a subsequent invocation of
the same program ? Currently one crash precipitates another,
or at least prevents the program functioning.

I can't find any command which will do this, and I don't want
to have to shut down the node repeatedly (particularly whilst
debugging).

Alternatively is it possible to force a binding of a socket 
to an apparently used address.

Please post any replies to: cattelld@prl.philips.co.uk

Many thanks,
David Cattell.