reuseport_posix.go

//go:build !plan9

package reuseport

import (
	"net"
	"syscall"
)

// reuseErrShouldRetry diagnoses whether to retry after a reuse error.
// if we failed to bind, we should retry. if bind worked and this is a
// real dial error (remote end didnt answer) then we should not retry.
func reuseErrShouldRetry(err error) bool {
	if err == nil {
		return false // hey, it worked! no need to retry.
	}

	// if it's a network timeout error, it's a legitimate failure.
	if nerr, ok := err.(net.Error); ok && nerr.Timeout() {
		return false
	}

	errno, ok := err.(syscall.Errno)
	if !ok { // not an errno? who knows what this is. retry.
		return true
	}

	switch errno {
	case syscall.EADDRINUSE, syscall.EADDRNOTAVAIL:
		return true // failure to bind. retry.
	case syscall.ECONNREFUSED:
		return false // real dial error
	default:
		return true // optimistically default to retry.
	}
}