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Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:04:04 +0100
From: Simon Kelley <simon@...kelleys.org.uk>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
CC: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Breakeage on Linux due to SO_REUSEPORT
On 01/04/13 17:53, Rich Felker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Back in November, we had a bug report against musl libc due to dnsmasq
> failing because we had defined SO_REUSEPORT in the headers, but Linux
> did not support it. At the time I just removed the definition, but
> we're adding it back now, as Linux has just recently added
> SO_REUSEPORT support, and thus the same issue will arise with glibc
> (which is just including asm/socket.h and thus getting the kernel's
> definition of it) too. I've attached the original bug report thread.
>
> The fundamental problem is that it's not valid to assume SO_REUSEPORT
> is supported/working just because it's defined. Instead, the usage
> pattern should probably be something like
>
> #ifdef SO_REUSEPORT
> if (setsockopt(s, SO_REUSEPORT, ...)<0 && errno==ENOPROTOOPT)
> #endif
> setsockopt(s, SO_REUSEADDR, ...);
>
>
> Rich
>
Thanks for that. The fix has gone into the forthcoming dnsmasq-2.66 release.
Cheers,
Simon.
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