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reitermarkus commented May 2, 2020 •
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Seems like SO_REUSEADDR actually exists on Windows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winsock/using-so-reuseaddr-and-so-exclusiveaddruse

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Hm, so some rough searching online suggests that Windows may not actually want this set (e.g. this random github thread).

I myself don't have much windows experience so I'm not willing to approve this just yet. I'll leave myself assigned as I don't know if we have anyone better at this time.

cc @retep998

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I also don't really have any Windows experience, just stumbled upon this while implementing libstd for another target.

So either this should be used or the constant removed.

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retep998 commented May 2, 2020 •
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From the very MSDN article that you linked:

The SO_REUSEADDR option has very few uses in normal applications aside from multicast sockets where data is delivered to all of the sockets bound on the same port. Otherwise, any application that sets this socket option should be redesigned to remove the dependency since it is eminently vulnerable to "socket hijacking". As long as SO_REUSEADDR socket option can be used to potentially hijack a port in a server application, the application must be considered to be not secure.

While on non-windows platforms SO_REUSEADDR allows you to bind to sockets that are still in TIME_WAIT, on Windows SO_REUSEADDR allows you to bind to sockets that are actively being used resulting in undefined behavior.

So no, we do not want this change. A change which we should consider though is setting SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE for all our sockets on Windows.

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Okay, yeah, that's what I suspected based on the GitHub thread. My skimming must have missed that on the MSDN page.

I would appreciate an update to this PR which includes a note that links to the MSDN page and summarizes why we don't want it.

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This PR could be changed to document that for Windows.

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Ok, I reverted the change and added an explanation as to why we don't set it on Windows.

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@bors r+ rollup

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📌 Commit 39a9790 has been approved by Mark-Simulacrum

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Auto merge of rust-lang#71807 - Dylan-DPC:rollup-jvb8sd9, r=Dylan-DPC
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Rollup of 7 pull requests

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 - rust-lang#69274 (Implement RFC 2396: `#[target_feature]` 1.1)
 - rust-lang#71767 (doc: make Stack and StackElement a little pretty)
 - rust-lang#71772 (Mark query function as must_use.)
 - rust-lang#71777 (cleanup: `config::CrateType` -> `CrateType`)
 - rust-lang#71784 (Remove recommendation for unmaintained dirs crate)
 - rust-lang#71785 (Update comment regarding SO_REUSEADDR on Windows)
 - rust-lang#71787 (fix rustdoc warnings)

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