Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: There's a length MSDN article about this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms740621%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Executive summary: it's a can of worms. However, let me point out the following sentence: “Ports without SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE set may be reused as soon as the socket on which bind was previously called is closed.” ...which seems to suggest we shouldn't use SO_REUSEADDR under Windows, since Windows sockets appear to have the Unix SO_REUSEADDR semantics by default. ---------- resolution: fixed -> versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 -Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8184> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
