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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:47:52 -0600
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Subject: Re: Intermittent "Address already in use" error
From: Brad Midgley <bmidgley@gmail.com>
To: John Freeman <johnf@optimation.com.au>
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John,

> From time to time, I encounter an "Address already in use" error when
> attempting to bind a socket to a particular local adapter. ?The python
> code looks like:
>
> ? Listener = BluetoothSocket(SCO)
> ? Listener.bind((addr1, ))
> ? Listener.listen(1)

Is the error appearing when you want to rebind a short time after it
was used? Maybe you need to setsockopt SO_REUSEADDR just like you
would if you wanted to quickly rebind a tcp serversocket.

-- 
Brad Midgley