[7u10] Request for approval: 7112670: Inet4AddressImpl should use getaddrinfo/getnameinfo (original) (raw)

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Mon Sep 17 03:29:08 PDT 2012

On 17/09/2012 10:06, Alan Bateman wrote:

For the record, I have concerns about back-porting this to 7u. The reason is that switching to getnameinfo and getaddrinfo can result in subtle behavioral changes that cause problems for applications and developers. A recent one in this area was: http://bugs.sun.com/viewbug.do?bugid=7166687 where the Mac port changed 7u4 to use getnameinfo, it was switched back in 7u5 to restore previous behavior. I realize the changes you are looking to back port are for the IPv4 case and maybe there are people running with IPv6 disabled but I think we need to fully understand any behavior changes before this is considered for a 7u release.

I agree with Alan here, while this is a nice cleanup it may bring a change in behavior.

If this backport is trying to address a specific issue you are running into, then we should investigate further any potential compatibility issues. Otherwise, it may be best to simply not backport in this case.

-Chris.

-Alan.

On 17/09/2012 09:14, Shi Jun Zhang wrote: Hi all,

I'd like to request for approval to push the following change into 7u10. Changeset in jdk8 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/81987765cb81 Webrev http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zhangshj/jdk7u/7112670/webrev.00/ Reviewed by chegar, alanb, mduigou, ngmr Review thread http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2011-November/003702.html

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