cattelld@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (cattelld) (09/09/88)
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.