Error when closing a socket and reconnecting

[Guru Andy]

Following problem:

I created a Socket (CSocket instance), bound it and connected to host.
After data exchange, I closed the Socket (x.close ())
Now, I want to reuse this Socket to establish a new connection to another host - but the programm terminates with an assert.

Is the socket still in use, even if call x.close() ?
(I also tried x.ShutDown (2) - same problem!)
How can I close/free the socket?

[Kailash Marthi]

Do the following after you've called CSocket::Create() and before you call CSocket::Accept(). If you call CSocket::Bind()(doesn't look like it), do the following before Bind().


CSocket mySocket;

mySocket.Create(...);
....
int nOptionValue = 1;
int nOptionLen = sizeof(nOptionValue);
mySocket.SetSockOpt(SO_REUSEADDR, (void *)&nOptionValue, &nOptionLen, SOL_SOCKET);
...
mySocket.Accept(...);
....




Kailash