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

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Sep 19 03:07:21 PDT 2012

On 19/09/2012 08:07, Shi Jun Zhang wrote:

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I think the bug Alan mentioned is just a typo by Mac porting but not because of using getnameinfo and getaddrinfo. The bug I referenced stemmed from the Mac port inadvertently changing the code to use getnameinfo in 7u4. This resulted in a behavioral change in some environments that meant the FQDN was returned for cases where it didn't previously. It's not technically a bug, but it was a behavior change that caused at least one application to break. There was discussion on this list at the time (need to check archives for April/May/June 2012 timeframe).

Anyway, I'm not saying the change is inappropriate for 7u, it's just that the impact needs to be understood. This means going through each of the impacted platforms and the possible configurations where changes might be observed by applications.

-Alan.

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