On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:46:24PM +1100, John Clarke wrote:
> > Unfortunately, this is something he didn't write, so he can't change the 
> > source code.  
> 
> Then he's out of luck.

Nearly.

If it's dynamically linked, he could write an LD_PRELOAD wrapper that
sets SO_REUSEADDR when the program calls socket(2) or bind(2) or
something like that.

It's probably simpler to just wait a couple of minutes, though ;)

-Andrew.

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