Mark, Apologies for leaving an answer to your question below blank, I didn't catch it until now.
> Do you have a bug id for http://bugs.sun.com/ for this issue, because to > prevent from duplicate reports I tried to search it. But that search function > in Sun/Oracle bug database is severely broken for quite a while now. No, I do not have a bug id for this, feel free to create a report. Thanks again for the additional robustness in your patch. Regards Dennis