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

[Bela Ban (JIRA)]

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Bela Ban commented on JGRP-1290:
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OK, I tried this on my Windows 7 system. JDK was 1.6.0-24. The problem was not reproduceable, a BindException was thrown *not* a SocketException.
Obviously, this bug was fixed some time between build 18 and 24.
I'm not going to change code in JGroups, as the solution is to upgrade to a more recent JDK on Windows 7

> 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: 2.12.1
>
>
> 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.

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