On Feb 1 08:36, Jon Dixon wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Thanks for all the consideration you have given this WinSock > problem. As a suggestion, would it be possible to add an ssh command > line option, so the user could explicitly open the listening port in > exclusive mode. This would alleviate the problem of trying to second > guess when to use SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE and when to use SO_REUSEADDR. > > For example: > ssh -L2001:server.com:23 -o "ExclusivePort yes" server.com
Sorry, no. I won't add any special options to ssh which are not avaiable upstream. Somehow you missed the point. There's no reason to change the application if the underlying library cares for that. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/