套接字上的“连接”调用可以成功返回而无需服务器调用“accept”吗?

Server has created a socket and bound to a port and started a thread which is in loop to accept the connection. Sometime later loop exited due to an exception resulting in thread exit but socket is still bounded to port. Now if client does a 'connect' to this server, it is succeeding. How is it possible? If I understand correctly, 'connect' returns only after server does 'accept' on the listening socket. Am I missing something here?Server has created a socket and bound to a port