Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/5] Do not set SO_REUSEADDR on Windows

[Eric Blake]

On 10/02/2013 04:23 AM, Sebastian Ottlik wrote:
> This patchset disables most uses of SO_REUSEADDR on Windows and replaces it 
> with
> calls to the new function socket_set_fast_reuse. On Windows systems the 
> default
> behaviour is equivalent to SO_REUSEADDR on other operating systems. 
> SO_REUSEADDR
> can still be set but results in undesired behaviour in most cases. It may even
> lead to situations were system behaviour is unspecified. More information on
> this can be found at:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms740621.aspx
> 
> I originally encountered this issue when accidentally launching two QEMU
> instances with identical GDB ports at the same time. In which case QEMU won't
> fail as one might expect.
> 
> Note that patch #4 fails checkpatch.pl. This is intentional (see v3 changes).
> 
> v6 Changes:
> - dropped error output and the silent parameter in favor of an assertion
> 
>   Actually I wanted to remove the return value from the function too, as the
>   assertion pretty much states that the function will not fail and thus always
>   return 0. However this would make the code a little ugly to prevent unused
>   variable warnings if NDEBUG is set (see patch 1) and also would require some
>   ugly changes to slirp/socket.c (see patch 4). Thus I decided to keep it.
> 
> - Rebased to current master (a684f3cf9b9b9c3cb82be87aafc463de8974610c)
> 

Series: Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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