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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 16:29:39 -0600
From: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
To: mgessner@aristar.com
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers)
Subject: Re: bind(2): address already in use -- how to fix?
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mgessner@aristar.com writes:
> 	in sig_chld, I get reported to me several pids that WERE NOT
> the result of a fork() call by the server.  Why is this?

Most probably, they are the pids of the processes that you have spawned
with popen().  popen() does an implicit fork/exec.


> 	"Address already in use"

You need to set SO_REUSEADDR in order to re-use the socket.  See your copy
of Stevens.
--
Jonathan