@@ -1332,19 +1332,22 @@ sub get_free_port
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# Check to see if anything else is listening on this TCP port.
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# Seek a port available for all possible listen_addresses values,
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# so callers can harness this port for the widest range of purposes.
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- # The 0.0.0.0 test achieves that for post-2006 Cygwin, which
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- # automatically sets SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE. The same holds for MSYS (a
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- # Cygwin fork). Testing 0.0.0.0 is insufficient for Windows native
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- # Perl (https://stackoverflow.com/a/14388707), so we also test
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- # individual addresses.
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+ # The 0.0.0.0 test achieves that for MSYS, which automatically sets
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+ # SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE. Testing 0.0.0.0 is insufficient for Windows
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+ # native Perl (https://stackoverflow.com/a/14388707), so we also
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+ # have to test individual addresses. Doing that for 127.0.0/24
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+ # addresses other than 127.0.0.1 might fail with EADDRNOTAVAIL on
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+ # non-Linux, non-Windows kernels.
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#
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- # On non-Linux, non-Windows kernels, binding to 127.0.0/24 addresses
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- # other than 127.0.0.1 might fail with EADDRNOTAVAIL. Binding to
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- # 0.0.0.0 is unnecessary on non-Windows systems.
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+ # Thus, 0.0.0.0 and individual 127.0.0/24 addresses are tested
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+ # only on Windows and only when TCP usage is requested.
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if ($found == 1)
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{
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foreach my $addr (qw( 127.0.0.1) ,
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- $use_tcp ? qw( 127.0.0.2 127.0.0.3 0.0.0.0) : ())
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+ $use_tcp ? qw( 127.0.0.2 127.0.0.3 0.0.0.0) : ())
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+ $use_tcp && $TestLib::windows_os
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+ ? qw( 127.0.0.2 127.0.0.3 0.0.0.0)
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+ : ())
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{
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if (!can_bind($addr , $port ))
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{
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