withConnectedSocket(_:channelInitializer:) in ClientBootstrap is not working

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Expected behavior

withConnectedSocket(_:channelInitializer:) should create a channel and activate its handlers.

Actual behavior

withConnectedSocket(_:channelInitializer:) does not activate handlers of the channel it created, and further operations on it don't work.

Steps to reproduce

let fd = connectToSomewhere()

Task {
    do {
        let channel = try await bootstrap.withConnectedSocket(fd) { channel in
            channel.pipeline.addHandler(EchoHandler())
                .flatMap { _ in
                    return channel.eventLoop.makeSucceededFuture(channel)
                }
        }
        try await channel.closeFuture.get()
    } catch {
        // ...
    }
}

The code above will produce an error operationUnsupported.

SwiftNIO version/commit hash

2.75.0

System & version information

This issue is irrelevant to the operating system.

Possible reason

withConnectedSocket(_:channelInitializer:) will internally invoke withConnectedSocket(eventLoop:socket:channelInitializer:postRegisterTransformation:) method and it then invokes initializeAndRegisterChannel(channel:channelInitializer:registration:postRegisterTransformation:) method. The type of registration parameter is @escaping @Sendable (Channel) -> EventLoopFuture<Void>, which will take an any Channel as a parameter. The implementation closure is at

swift-nio/Sources/NIOPosix/Bootstrap.swift

Line 1364 in ff98c93

channel.registerAlreadyConfigured0(promise: promise)

The real registerAlreadyConfigured0(promise:) implementation from SocketChannel is not called, however, the default implementation from Channel extension is called:

swift-nio/Sources/NIOCore/Channel.swift

Line 205 in ff98c93

promise?.fail(ChannelError._operationUnsupported)

This is an known issue of Swift: swiftlang/swift#42725