[Bug 26031] µTorrent loses the ability of listening to incoming connections

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26031

--- Comment #56 from Artem S. Tashkinov <t.artem at mailcity.com> 2013-08-26 00:16:11 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #55)
> (In reply to comment #53)
> No, uTorrent does not set SO_REUSEADDR by default. We were speculating about
> forcing that option on every socket that is created. The problem is that
> windows ignores TIME_WAIT and allows any program to bind to the port, while in
> linux the timings are strictly followed.

I still don't see any security implications in enabling SO_REUSEADDR by
default.

Windows has always allowed that and I don't see a single security problem
arising due to this feature. What's so different about Linux? I've no idea at
all.

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