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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 100 06:52:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com>
To:        usebsd@free.fr (mouss)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Exim Socket Bind Problem
Message-ID:  <E12DQzt-0009Gi-00@twwells.com>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBJDFPGLMLFHLNEEOMEECBDMAA.usebsd@free.fr> from "mouss" at Jan 26, 0 11:52:17 am

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> In my viewpoint, this is not abug, minor or not. This is a choice.
> when you write a program like thisand you call bind() and find that the port
> is already in use,

The bug is not in the behavior on calling bind. It is in the
behavior before the fork -- exim should have closed the socket,
thus making the port available.


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