>I just discovered that there is two different native functions for
>accessing socket option time to live in
>java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl: setTTL(), getTTL(), setTimeToLive()
>and getTimeToLive(). The only difference seem to be that the *TTL are
>working with jbyte, and *TimeToLive are using jint.
>
>Is this a correct observation, or is there something I have missed.
>IS there a reason for JDK 1.2 to use jint instead of JDK 1.1's jbyte?
Your observation is correct. The time to live value can be between 1 and
255 IIRC. I think they made the switch to jint to avoid numbers showing up
as negative, though I think the function actually worked with them.
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