On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 21:23:39 GMT, Alex Menkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> SocketIOPipe/IOPipe classes can select listening port by 2 ways:
> 1. caller specifies "-transport.address=dynamic" argument creating
> ArgumentHandler,
> and calls Binder.prepareForPipeConnection (actually see
> nsk.share.jpda.DebugeeBinder.prepareForPipeConnection()) before start
> listening.
> In the case prepareForPipeConnection creates socket and this socket later is
> used by IOPipe.
> 2. just start IOPipe listening.
> Then port is selected by calling
> nsk.share.jpda.DebugeeArgumentHandler.getTransportPort() which use
> findFreePort() method:
>
> ServerSocket ss;
> try {
> ss = new ServerSocket(0);
> return String.valueOf(ss.getLocalPort());
> }finally {
> ss.close();
> }
>
> This method is known to be error prone (sometimes causes "address in use"
> error).
>
> The fix adds "-transport.address=dynamic" argument so IOPipe use 1st method.
Marked as reviewed by kevinw (Committer).
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4676