Review request for 4516760: (so) Intermittent SocketException: Transport endpoint is not connected (lnx)

[Xueming Shen]

looks fine.

Alan Bateman wrote:
> I need a reviewer for this tiny change. The shutdown(2) call fails 
> with ENOTCONN when the socket is not connected. This seems to have 
> different interpretations, at least for the case where the connection 
> has been reset by the peer.  Solaris and Windows do not return the 
> error for this case, Linux does, and this can cause applications using 
> SocketChannel.shutdown{Input,Output} (or the adapter equivalents) to 
> fail intermittently. Grizzly and others have run into this. We don't 
> see this with classic networking because the return value isn't 
> checked. The proposed fix is to ignore this specific error, which is 
> harmless because the socket channel implementation checks the channel 
> state before calling shutdown. The webrev is here:
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/4516760/webrev.00/
>
> Thanks,
> Alan.