[systemd-devel] simultaneous udp listeners for ipv4+6 caused systemd to go into a loop

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Wednesday 2012-12-05 05:59, AbH Belxjander Draconis Serechai wrote:

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>It is asking for the same resource twice in the way I read that
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>aren't IPv4 and IPv6 sharing socket space?

They share address space; IPv4 is blended into IPv6 at 
::ffff:0000:0000/96, and so something listening on [::] also listens on 
0.0.0.0 by default.

>that would be a resource allocation error if true right?

Something like "Attempted double-use", EADDRINUSE.