JDK 8 RFR 8010371: getaddrinfo can fail with EAI_SYSTEM/EAGAIN, causes UnknownHostException to be thrown

Tue Oct 1 20:27:23 UTC 2013

On Oct 1, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Michael McMahon wrote:

>> The approach I initially was going to take was to retry once after a short wait and then fail with the proposed exception if the retry failed.
> 
> I'm not sure about the short wait. I know the submitter claims that it worked after 50ms, but I don't
> think we could generalise that behavior in the library. Maybe, there is value in repeating immediately, though
> it is less likely the temporary condition will have resolved.

It does seem better to let the calling code retry if it wants based on the class of the exception.

Brian