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Workaround for socket permission errors on Cygwin #4584

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@embray embray commented Apr 23, 2019

As reported first here, when running on Cygwin if the notebook server tries to bind on the default port (say 8888) and this results in a permission error for some reason (perhaps a service is installed that as exclusive permission to use that port) the notebook server crashes instead of automatically trying another port.

I confirmed that this is likely due to a bug in Cygwin such that it does not properly map the WSAEACCES winsock error code to the POSIX EACCES.

This provides a simple workaround--unfortunately the workaround can in principle mask other errors (since the EPERM set by Cygwin is a default fallback for unrecognized winsock errors), but this is going to be the most likely culprit for users.

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embray commented Apr 23, 2019

Error on Travis appears to be spurious.

@blink1073 blink1073 force-pushed the cygwin/bind-eperm branch from e05a4df to 7aa6891 Compare June 7, 2020 11:33
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Kicking CI.

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LGTM, thanks!

@blink1073 blink1073 merged commit 8e7c99a into jupyter:master Jun 7, 2020
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@embray embray deleted the cygwin/bind-eperm branch June 8, 2020 12:12
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embray commented Jun 8, 2020

Oh cool, I forgot about this. Thanks for accepting the fix.

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