On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 01:35:56PM -0400, Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 08:14:15PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > of operations. There are four ways where bind can fail: > > > > 1. unsufficient rights - nothing can help here > > 2. there is no memory - async binding can not help here too, since it > > some memory just has to be allocated to save async request > > somewhere. > > 3. socket is locked. > > 4. addres is being bound is in use. > > For most protocols yes - but not all. For things like IP specifying O_NDELAY > is meaningless on a bind it will always complete on the spot as you say
Yes, of course, bind conflict can be handled in different way as Ulrich noted - from checking bind bucket, to request remote node if address is in use or not. -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html