Bug or feature ...

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 05:53:46 PM Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 05:35:07PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > He offers this as a test case:
> I can confirm the behavior difference between maverick and natty by doing
> this:
> 
> while ./testcase.pl ; do echo -n . ; done
> 
> On maverick, this runs forever. Natty immediately fails:
> 
> Parent 792
> 
> Child 793
> .bind: Address already in use at ./testcase.pl line 9.
> 
> 
> I hope this is a Net::Server delta and not a kernel delta.

It's not Net::Server.  The only reason we have a newer Net::Server in Natty 
was in the hopes that it would not have this problem.  I don't think anyone 
tried an older Perl on Natty though.

Scott K