On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:41:22 GMT, Daniel Jeliński <djelin...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/jdk.net/macosx/native/libextnet/MacOSXSocketOptions.c line 207:
>> 
>>> 205:         }
>>> 206:     }
>>> 207:     return JNI_TRUE;
>> 
>> Hello Daniel, if I'm reading this diff correctly, then we have inverted the 
>> check on `fd`. So I suspect this final `return` now needs to be changed to 
>> `return JNI_FALSE` to account for `fd` being `-1`?
>
> Hi Jaikiran, the point of this change was to better support systems where 
> either IPv4 or IPv6 was disabled. I'm not sure if that can even happen on 
> Mac. 
> The change here is that if we can't create one socket, we don't immediately 
> return false, but instead return the result for the other socket. For 
> example, if creating IPv4 socket fails, we only check if DF is supported on 
> IPv6 socket, and return that as a result. If both `socket` calls fail, we 
> don't know if the DF flag is supported, and return true (before the patch we 
> would return false in that case). I can modify the patch to return false in 
> that case, or roll back this change entirely if you think it makes no sense.

I think this change makes sense so long as we are sure that if IPv4 or IPv6 is 
disabled then the right call happens for the other option.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9575

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