}

	connChan := make(chan any, 1)
	go func() {
		tcpConn, err := l.Accept()
		if err != nil {
			connChan <- err
			return
		}
		connChan <- tcpConn
	}()

	var tcpConn net.Conn
	select {
	case connOrError := <-connChan:
		if err, ok := connOrError.(error); ok {
			return nil, nil, err
		}
		tcpConn = connOrError.(net.Conn)
	case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):

	// opening the listening socket, so we can't use that to wait until it
	// has started listening. Thus we are forced to poll until we get a
	// connection.
	var tcpConn net.Conn
	for i := uint(0); i < 5; i++ {
		tcpConn, err = net.DialTCP("tcp", nil, &net.TCPAddr{
			IP:   net.IPv4(127, 0, 0, 1),
			Port: serverPort,
		})
		if err == nil {
			break
		}