Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote:
With this change, we can use the 6.3 version of Quicktime to see streamed video from Wineconf...
This would break Grand Prix Legends and Nascar 2002 (Thats why the patch was written in the first place), maybe you should contact the author of the patch, a proper fix would be better, why should we chose between 2 games and quicktime? It should be possible to run all these apps.
Jeremy Shaw already argued that the patch was incorrect, and I am near dead certain that he is right.
It's been years since I was a Stevens expert, but there was a day when I was, and my gut reaction to that patch was one of shuddering horror. In fact, I really should argue for the complete reversal of the patch until a regression test can conclusively prove that Window misbehaves in such a horrid way (i.e. auto doing a reuseaddr and not using DONTROUTE).
If Windows *does* allow you to double bind an address, it can only be the case that it does so in limited circumstances, and we should implement those limited circumstances, rather than applying a shotgun to the problem.
Cheers,
Jer