RFR: 8302659: Modernize Windows native code for NetworkInterface [v2]

[Rich DiCroce]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:01:43 GMT, Mark Sheppard <msheppar at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Rich DiCroce has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>> 
>>   Limit line length to 80-ish characters
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> what versions of Windows has this been tested on ? Just wondering if the deletion of the old dual stack winXP based code could have on the older windows OS platforms?
> afaik current set of supported windows OS platforms, from the ATR list, are : 
>             windows server 2019,
>             windows server 2022,
>             windows server  2016,
>             windows 10,
>             windows 11,
>             windows 8,
>             windows server2012,
>             windows server 2012R2
> 
> some of these may be retired for LTS JDK21, but for the moment they are in the mix.
> We'll need to schedule test runs for all these.
> 
> Also we will have to arrange some IPv6 only test runs for this prior to any integration -- that takes a bit of time to arrange the resources to be setup and to schedule the runs.

@msheppar I tested this on Windows 10 and 11. I don't have access to any older systems. But I tried to be careful about which APIs I used. I'm pretty sure I checked the MS docs for all of them, and they all exist since Vista/Server 2008. So this should work on all the versions you listed.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12593