[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JGRP-1290) Windows 7 might throw SocketException instead of BindException

Windows 7 might throw SocketException instead of BindException -------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JGRP-1290 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-1290 Project: JGroups Issue Type: Enhancement Affects Versions: 2.12 Environment: Windows 7 Reporter: Manuel Dominguez Sarmiento Assignee: Bela Ban Priority: Minor Fix For: 2.12 This is not actually a JGroups bug, it's more of a Sun JVM bug. See the following: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6939037 In short, when a port is in use in Windows 7, SocketException is thrown instead of the more specific BindException. JGroups has code in several places that probes for available ports. Perhaps Windows 7 should be detected, and SocketException be caught instead of BindException in these circumstances. Before anyone cries out "get a real OS", we use RHEL on our production servers, but some of our developers use Windows 7 on their development boxes.