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getIsPortTaken does not work and break the usedPortAction option #19

@nrako

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@nrako

This following method getIsPortTaken might falsely return false, even though a server might be running on the configured protocol, host and port.

function getIsPortTaken(config: JestProcessManagerOptions) {
let server: net.Server
const cleanupAndReturn: (val: boolean) => void = result =>
new Promise(resolve => server.once('close', () => resolve(result)).close())
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
server = net
.createServer()
.once('error', (err: JestProcessManagerError) =>
err.code === 'EADDRINUSE' ? resolve(cleanupAndReturn(true)) : reject(),
)
.once('listening', () => resolve(cleanupAndReturn(false)))
.listen(config.port, config.host)
})
}

This renders usedPortAction useless, and for example would lead to a server being started while ignore should have prevented that.

From what I understood this is because of SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT:

Package such as node-portscanner would use net.Socket() to prevent that: https://github.com/baalexander/node-portscanner/blob/4fc93fe2a5cc9db983caab57bfe27cbee4de9cc5/lib/portscanner.js#L100-L135

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