[erlang-questions] eaddrinuse despite {reuseaddr, true}

[aman mangal]

Hi,

The error is thrown in the first line. It is returning *{error, **
eaddrinuse}*  (where you are expeciting *{ok, LSock}*) because the port is
already being used by some different process. Two process cannot listen on
the same port at a time.

Aman Mangal
4th year Undergraduate Student
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
IIT Bombay
www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~amanmangal


On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:16 PM, JD Bothma <jbothma@REDACTED> wrote:

> Why can this sometimes exit with exception error: no match of right hand
> side value {error,eaddrinuse} ?
>
> As far as I know, nothing's connecting to the socket in this time.
>
> [ begin {ok, LSock} = gen_tcp:listen(12345, [{reuseaddr, true}]),
>            {error, timeout} = gen_tcp:accept(LSock, 0),
>            ok = gen_tcp:close(LSock)
>    end
>   || _X <- lists:seq(1, 100000) ].
>
> This is on R14 and 15 on linux and R16 on OS X.
>
> BTW it doesn't seem to happen if I don't accept. I'm debugging this
> behaviour in yaws with SSL but it also seems to happen with plain gen_tcp.
>
> JD
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