[PATCH 1/2] IAPP: Set SO_REUSEPORT on listening socket

Petko Bordjukov bordjukov at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 18:56:42 PST 2015


Hello and thank you for the feedback!

On нд, 2015-11-15 at 19:16 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> SO_REUSEPORT is a pretty recent addition. Wouldn't this break build
> with older header files? As such, this should probably be protected
> with #ifdef SO_REUSEPORT or something similar.

Yes, SO_REUSEPORT is indeed a fairly new addition to Linux. I could
protect it with an ifdef or I could just use SO_REUSEADDR. If I
understand correctly there is little difference between the two with
regards to multicast (with the exception of the UID checking for
SO_REUSEPORT).

Having said that, I have not tested SO_REUSEADDR yet. I will and
depending on the results will either submit a new version with
SO_REUSEADDR or one with an ifdef around the setsockopt invocation.

> It sounds like it would be safe to ignore the error and continue to
> get the existing behavior.

Yes, it would be safe to continue. Should I make it just log a
MSG_WARNING and carry on instead?

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Regards,
P.



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