Dr. Leroy:

First, my deepest thanks to you and your colleagues for your  
excellent, hard work on the Objective Caml system and its related  
tools. I'm simultaneously learning a tremendous amount from  
programming in O'Caml and having great fun doing so.

I'm curious as to whether there's any chance of having (some variant  
of) the attached patch applied to the O'Caml 3.10.0 codebase. The  
attached patch was provided to me by Alon Kama, maintainer of the  
Ensemble process group communication system, in support of enabling  
Ensemble 2.01 to work correctly on Mac OS X. As you know, Mac OS X is  
a BSD-derived platform, hence makes the distinction between  
SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT in socket options related socket  
rebinding--a distinction that affects much server-oriented socket  
code. So this patch should benefit any BSD-derived platform, not only  
Mac OS X. Having said that, I cannot honestly say that I fully  
understand what changes, particularly conditionalization, might be  
necessary to ensure its proper use on all supported O'Caml platforms;  
nor, of course, can I say whether making that determination with your  
available staff, hardware, OS, and time resources is realistic at  
all, let alone in the time remaining to deliver O'Caml 3.10.0. So I  
appreciate your forbearance.

Many thanks and best regards,
Paul Snively