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/view_bug.do?bug_id=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
