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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Help with Glade (Annex E) on Windows
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:27:48 +0000
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Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> 	Can this really be considered a problem with the GNAT runtime? It
> seems to be common behavior on a number of OS socket stacks, regardless
> of the language used, to have a forced time-out before a port can be
> reused... unless it's been opened with the REUSEADDR option.
>
> 	(Okay, maybe it's a bug that this option is /not/ being used... but
> it is not a commonly used option either>

We use it all the time! can't see any real reason not to ... and IME
it can be a lot longer than 'a few seconds'.