UDP socket not unbinding from a port

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I am facing a strange issue where my UDP socket that was earlier bound to a port is not unbinding from the port when I call closesocket(). The API call doesn't return any error but netstat command and TCPView app still show that port is still in use by my application.

What I have tried:

I tried creating the socket, binding, reading and closing on the same thread but still seeing the same issue.

Posted 20-Mar-22 18:42pm

sridhar vattam

Updated 20-Mar-22 18:57pm

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Member 16127436 · Answer 1 · 2023-10-30T12:13:00

const char on = 1;

int iResult = setsockopt(udp_socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &on, 
                sizeof(on));

if (iResult != NO_ERROR)
{
    std::cerr << "Can not enable REUSEADDR mode." 
        << " Error code: " << iResult << "\n";

    closesocket(udp_socket);
    return INVALID_SOCKET;
}

// now bind socket to address