[Bug 8513] SO_REUSEADDR doesnt work?

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8513

--- Comment #13 from rasz   2007-11-06 12:20:21 ---
> The initial problem is not fixable on a BSD
> socket platform.

umm, the problem is not in "BSD socket platform"/linux tcpip stack, the problem
is in Wine lacking this functionality. Wine is already a middleman between apps
and the kernel sockets, so what is stopping it from lying a little?

How does it work under windows? Does it hijack the port unbinding it from the
previous owner (and returns error)? or does the previous owner just stop
receiving data until the new SO_REUSEADDR socket is released? What if a third
app also uses SO_REUSEADDR and again takes port rom the previous one that used
SO_REUSEADDR? :)

I know that implementing it would look like a hack, but i suspect that its
already a hack under windows from early tcpip implementation, and there are
many applications using this flag (with your fix some of them will just fail to
bind port since windows has no problem with this flag).