[Mono-dev] Mono 1.2.3.1 SO_REUSEPORT / System.Net.Sockets.SocketOptionName.ReusePort Patch

Slava Shirokov slava at cyberwang.net
Mon May 7 09:42:34 EDT 2007


Robert Jordan wrote:
> Well, this introduces a security issue on BSD and it will also
> break applications that expect bind() to fail.

That's the reason I wanted the options separate, but implying SO_REUSEPORT would match the behavior of mono on Linux and 
Windows.

> Can you elaborate which operations on what kind of sockets
> are failing on BSD?

bind() on UDP multicast sockets.

Would you prefer I take this issue up with FreeBSD-ports?



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