Awesome! Thanks! Wolfgang.
On May 9, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Rob McKenna wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > > I've pushed this into 7u5 which will GA on the 12th of next month. I'll push > it into the current jdk7u repo once I get a (positive) response to the > approval mail I'm about to send. > > -Rob > > On 09/05/12 18:21, Wolfgang Hoschek wrote: >> Hi Alan, >> >> Thanks for letting me know. I strongly encourage you all to revert the >> behavioral change on Linux and Mac not just in jdk8 but also in jdk7u as >> well. This critical java regression prevents us from upgrading to >> jdk1.7.0_04. >> >> Best regards, >> Wolfgang. >> >> On May 9, 2012, at 5:02 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: >> >>> On 09/05/2012 10:15, Wolfgang Hoschek wrote: >>>> [7u6] In jdk1.7.0_04 GA java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName() >>>> return the fully qualified host name (e.g. >>>> "ip-10-172-17-93.us-west-1.compute.internal") instead of returning the >>>> hostname without the domain (e.g. "ip-10-172-17-93"). This is a regression >>>> wrt. all prior versions of jdk 1.7 and jdk 1.6. This breaks applications >>>> that expect the old behavior. >>>> >>> This isn't really a bug, it's always been possible for getHostName to >>> return the FQHN, it's just been very platform and configuration specific. >>> However there was a behavior change on Linux and Mac in 7u4 and jdk8 that >>> came via the addition of the Mac port. He has already been fixed in jdk8 as >>> 7166687 [1] and I believe Rob intends to get it into jdk7u too. >>> >>> -Alan >>> >>> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/b26c04717735
