in reply to Re: Clean closing sockets
in thread Clean closing sockets

Okay, thats a fair enough answer. So my question is this, not to sound daft or anything:

How do I setockopt() on a SOCKET when I can't generate the SOCKET because it won't bind to the port I'm telling it to?
Clarify: 

my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(....);
setsockopt($server, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1);

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$server doesn't exist until after the bind, but the bind won't happen (and perl will stop) at the ->new() because the port is already "taken"...
I'm quite sure I'm so far off base you're laughing - which is fine - as long as you can tell me how its _supposed_ to work :)

Thanks,
JP

-- Alexander Widdlemouse undid his bellybutton and his bum dropped off --

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Re: Re: Re: Clean closing sockets
by trantor (Chaplain) on Aug 16, 2001 at 00:36 UTC

    setsockopt can be used immediately after calling socket and before bind, if using the functional socket interface.

    With perldoc IO::Socket you can easily find out that all you need to do is passing the Reuse option to your constructor: 

    my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(...., Reuse => 1);

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    Happy recycling!

    -- TMTOWTDI

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      JP
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