# Check to see if anything else is listening on this TCP port.
# Seek a port available for all possible listen_addresses values,
# so callers can harness this port for the widest range of purposes.
- # The 0.0.0.0 test achieves that for post-2006 Cygwin, which
- # automatically sets SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE. The same holds for MSYS (a
- # Cygwin fork). Testing 0.0.0.0 is insufficient for Windows native
- # Perl (https://stackoverflow.com/a/14388707), so we also test
- # individual addresses.
+ # The 0.0.0.0 test achieves that for MSYS, which automatically sets
+ # SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE. Testing 0.0.0.0 is insufficient for Windows
+ # native Perl (https://stackoverflow.com/a/14388707), so we also
+ # have to test individual addresses. Doing that for 127.0.0/24
+ # addresses other than 127.0.0.1 might fail with EADDRNOTAVAIL on
+ # non-Linux, non-Windows kernels.
#
- # On non-Linux, non-Windows kernels, binding to 127.0.0/24 addresses
- # other than 127.0.0.1 might fail with EADDRNOTAVAIL. Binding to
- # 0.0.0.0 is unnecessary on non-Windows systems.
+ # Thus, 0.0.0.0 and individual 127.0.0/24 addresses are tested
+ # only on Windows and only when TCP usage is requested.
if ($found == 1)
{
foreach my $addr (qw(127.0.0.1),
- $use_tcp ? qw(127.0.0.2 127.0.0.3 0.0.0.0) : ())
+ $use_tcp ? qw(127.0.0.2 127.0.0.3 0.0.0.0) : ())
+ $use_tcp && $TestLib::windows_os
+ ? qw(127.0.0.2 127.0.0.3 0.0.0.0)
+ : ())
{
if (!can_bind($addr, $port))
{