Programming

hi all,

Im using a tcp socket for communication. After all the communications I close the socket and bind another socket to the same port. But it shows bind error. I see it is due to the port no being used immediately. But i am closing the first socket before the binding the second one to the same port. Why is the port not set free? How can i do it (set the port free)?

Thank you

Without seeing your code I can't guess why it's still open, but something must have been left open somewhere. Remember that, if it's a server socket, you've already bound it and can just accept() new connections without reopening it.

Its a client socket.

length=sizeof(clientAddr);
socketFd=createSocket("tcp");

//setting the server address
clientAddr.sin_family=AF_INET;
clientAddr.sin_addr.s_addr=INADDR_ANY;
port=port+((incrementor++)%50);
clientAddr.sin_port=htons(port);
bindSocket(socketFd,&clientAddr,length);

//setting the server address
serverAddr.sin_family=AF_INET;
serverAddr.sin_addr.s_addr=INADDR_ANY;
serverAddr.sin_port=htons(31000);

/*TCP Connection with slave*/
if((connect(socketFd,(struct sockaddr*)&serverAddr,sizeof(serverAddr)))==-1){
printf("Err in connect\n");
exit(0);
}

//request to server
if(send(socketFd,command,strlen(command)+1,0)<0){
printf("Err in Sending read request to server\n");
}
if(bytesReceived=recv(socketFd,reply,sizeof(reply),0)<0){
printf("Err in receiving reply from server\n");
}
shutdown(socketFd,2);

shutdown is insufficient, you must close() it after that.

Yeah i tried that too. Din work. Only then i switched to shutdown.

I don't suppose you forked anywhere, leaving a copy in a child process?

no im using multithreaded programming.