[erlang-questions] clarify: SO_REUSEADDR under darwin?

[Paul Mineiro]

hi.

i've attached a very short erlang program which tries to open two udp
ports with reuseaddr option.  it works under linux but fails under darwin.

is this a known problem?

i can see the following in the ktrace:

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% ktrace -id -t c erl -eval 'test:test ()' -noshell -noinput -s init stop
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the kdump.out contains:

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 28042 beam     CALL  socket(0x2,0x2,0x11)
 28042 beam     RET   socket 9
 28042 beam     CALL  fcntl(0x9,0x3,0)
 28042 beam     RET   fcntl 2
 28042 beam     CALL  fcntl(0x9,0x4,0x6)
 28042 beam     RET   fcntl 0
 28042 beam     CALL  setsockopt(0x9,0xffff,0x1002,0xbfffe1fc,0x4)
 28042 beam     RET   setsockopt 0
 28042 beam     CALL  setsockopt(0x9,0xffff,0x4,0xbfffe1fc,0x4)
 28042 beam     RET   setsockopt 0
 28042 beam     CALL  bind(0x9,0xbfffe0e0,0x10)
 28042 beam     RET   bind -1 errno 48 Address already in use
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setsockopt(0x9,0xffff,0x4,0xbfffe1fc,0x4) looks right:

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% grep -e SO_REUSEADDR -e SOL_SOCKET /usr/include/sys/socket.h
#define SO_REUSEADDR    0x0004          /* allow local address reuse */
#define SOL_SOCKET      0xffff          /* options for socket level */
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the only thing i can't verify is that 0xbfffe1fc is a pointer to one.

thanks,

-- p

% dpkg -s erlang-otp | grep Version
Version: 11b-5-1
% erl -version
Erlang (ASYNC_THREADS) (BEAM) emulator version 5.5.5

Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the
individual favor change over security?

  -- Robert Noyce
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-module (test).
-compile (export_all).

test () ->
  Port = 4545,

  { ok, Socket } = gen_udp:open (Port,
                                 [ { reuseaddr, true } ]),

  { ok, SocketTwo } = gen_udp:open (Port,
                                    [ { reuseaddr, true } ]),

  { Socket, SocketTwo }.