id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
10	Network.Socket.connect: support for sockets w/ bound local endpoints	tibbe		"Just in case this isn't taken care of by the ongoing rewrite of 'network', but there's an age-old limitation in the implementation of Network.Socket.connect -- it balks at being given a socket where the local endpoint (port,iface) has already been bound.

i.e., it socket status test ought to be

    not (currentStatus elem [NotConnected?,Bound])

The workaround of manually resetting SocketStatus? always leaves me feeling icky. 

(Copied from http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3143)"	defect	closed	major		network		duplicate		sof@…