Re: [fluid-dev] Failure to bind server socket: 98

[Marcus Weseloh]

Am Do., 24. Feb. 2022 um 23:09 Uhr schrieb <hamish@moffatt.email>:
> It's standard UNIX sockets behaviour unless the code specifies the
> SO_REUSEADDR socket option. It's a security mechanism to stop a new
> program taking over an old program's socket and receiving any new
> packets or connections intended for the old program.
>
> Fluidsynth would need to set this socket option to fix this.

We could also try to figure out why the socket is still in TIME_WAIT.
Maybe some "normal" shutdown paths of FluidSynth don't close and
cleanup the socket properly?

Cheers
Marcus