Nit: It's EWOULDBLOCK, not EAGAIN.

>perl -MErrno=EAGAIN,EWOULDBLOCK -E"say $!=$_ for EAGAIN,EWOULDBLOCK"
Resource temporarily unavailable
A non-blocking socket operation could not be completed immediately.
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I don't know why the socket would have been made non-blocking (assuming the message isn't misleading).