Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!blake!mtsu
From: mtsu@blake.acs.washington.edu (Montana State)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Socket question
Message-ID: <1006@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 89 08:37:57 GMT
Reply-To: icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Hokay, I hope this is a really stupid question...  E-mail responses if this
is too basic...

I have this program I'm writing which is running as a server on our network.

Everything works fine, except when I'm all done, or I get an error
condition, I just want to blow the whole thing away and restart.  What I have
so far is:

  All the socket set up stuff
  execute garbage, return answer
  If error then
    shutdown(socket,(int)2);
    close(socket)

    execve(argv[0],argv,envp);

The execve executes, but the program bombs on the bind() call with
an "address already in use" message.  How do I get this "address"
released so I can restart it.  Or is execve the wrong call??

Jaye Mathisen
icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu