From: Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Date: 2002-07-02T11:57:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Reusing sockets


JM>   Question on sockets:  Can you reuse them?

To answer my own question, my partner in crime tells me:

a quick perusal of connect(2) reveals:

"Generally, stream sockets may success-fully connect() only once; 
datagram sockets may use connect() multiple times to change their 
association.  Datagram sockets may dissolve the association by 
connecting to an invalid address, such as a null address."

So the answer is no for tcp sockets and yes for udp.

thanks,
-joe