dgram: implicit binds should be exclusive

Server sockets should be shared by default, and client sockets should be
exclusive by default. For net/TCP, this is how it is, for dgram/UDP, its
a little less clear what a client socket is, but a socket that is
auto-bound during a dgram.send() is not usefully shared among cluster
workers, any more than an outgoing TCP connection would be usefully
shared.

Since implicit binds become exclusive, implicit/client dgram sockets can
now be used with cluster on Windows. Before, neither explicit nor
implicitly bound sockets could be used, causing dgram to be completely
unsupported with cluster on Windows. After this change, they become half
supported.

PR: #325
PR: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8643
Reviewed-by: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Bert Belder <[email protected]>

Author: sam-github

lib/dgram.js

@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ Socket.prototype.send = function(buffer,
   self._healthCheck();
 
   if (self._bindState == BIND_STATE_UNBOUND)
-    self.bind(0, null);
+    self.bind({port: 0, exclusive: true}, null);
 
   // If the socket hasn't been bound yet, push the outbound packet onto the
   // send queue and send after binding is complete.

test/parallel/test-cluster-dgram-2.js

@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ function worker() {
   var socket = dgram.createSocket('udp4');
   var buf = new Buffer('hello world');
 
+  // This test is intended to exercise the cluster binding of udp sockets, but
+  // since sockets aren't clustered when implicitly bound by at first call of
+  // send(), explicitly bind them to an ephemeral port.
+  socket.bind(0);
+
   for (var i = 0; i < PACKETS_PER_WORKER; i++)
     socket.send(buf, 0, buf.length, common.PORT, '127.0.0.1');
 

test/parallel/test-dgram-exclusive-implicit-bind.js

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
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+
+var common = require('../common');
+var assert = require('assert');
+var cluster = require('cluster');
+var dgram = require('dgram');
+
+// Without an explicit bind, send() causes an implicit bind, which always
+// generate a unique per-socket ephemeral port. An explicit bind to a port
+// number causes all sockets bound to that number to share a port.
+//
+// The 2 workers that call bind() will share a port, the two workers that do
+// not will not share a port, so master will see 3 unique source ports.
+
+// Note that on Windows, clustered dgram is not supported. Since explicit
+// binding causes the dgram to be clustered, don't fork the workers that bind.
+// This is a useful test, still, because it demonstrates that by avoiding
+// clustering, client (ephemeral, implicitly bound) dgram sockets become
+// supported while using cluster, though servers still cause the master to error
+// with ENOTSUP.
+
+var windows = process.platform === 'win32';
+
+if (cluster.isMaster) {
+  var pass;
+  var messages = 0;
+  var ports = {};
+
+  process.on('exit', function() {
+    assert.equal(pass, true);
+  });
+
+  var target = dgram.createSocket('udp4');
+
+  target.on('message', function(buf, rinfo) {
+    messages++;
+    ports[rinfo.port] = true;
+
+    if (windows && messages === 2) {
+      assert.equal(Object.keys(ports).length, 2);
+      done();
+    }
+
+    if (!windows && messages === 4) {
+      assert.equal(Object.keys(ports).length, 3);
+      done();
+    }
+
+    function done() {
+      pass = true;
+      cluster.disconnect();
+      target.close();
+    }
+  });
+
+  target.on('listening', function() {
+    cluster.fork();
+    cluster.fork();
+    if (!windows) {
+      cluster.fork({BOUND: 'y'});
+      cluster.fork({BOUND: 'y'});
+    }
+  });
+
+  target.bind({port: common.PORT, exclusive: true});
+
+  return;
+}
+
+var source = dgram.createSocket('udp4');
+
+if (process.env.BOUND === 'y') {
+  source.bind(0);
+} else {
+  // cluster doesn't know about exclusive sockets, so it won't close them. This
+  // is expected, its the same situation for timers, outgoing tcp connections,
+  // etc, which also keep workers alive after disconnect was requested.
+  source.unref();
+}
+
+source.send(Buffer('abc'), 0, 3, common.PORT, '127.0.0.1');