Re: connecting an unbound socket to itself

[David Miller]

From: Serge Belyshev <belyshev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:24:04 +0400

> But my socket is unbound and I'm connecting to a loopback address, so
> I expect the connection to fail if nobody listens on the port I am
> connecting to.  Yet the connections succeedes on the rare occasion when
> the kernel chooses the source port number that matches the destination.

At the point you do a connect() you are "listening" on that
port and can be connected to.
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