RPC clnt_create() adress already in use

[Mark Geisert]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb  6 11:29, PAULUS, Raimund, TI-ABN wrote:
>> On Feb  5 15:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
[...]
>> I've pushed a few patches and uploaded new developer snapshots to
>> https://cygwin.com/snapshots.  Please give them a try.
>>
>> with the snapshot of cygwin1.dll and using bindresvport() from Cygwin
>> for libtirpc (instead of the original bindresvport() from libtirpc)
>> all my testcases work without error.
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Raimund
>
> Thanks for testing.  Please note that this should work most of the time,
> but is still not 100% foolproof.  There's a systematic race between
> checking existing connections and calling bind which can't be easily
> worked around by Cygwin.  Still, should be better than before :}

Great to read this latest status.  I'll shortly submit a libtirpc patch to stub 
out its own version of bindresvport() in favor of Cygwin's version.
Thanks all,

..mark

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