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

[Alan Bateman]

On 01/10/2013 12:46, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
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> I updated the webrev
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8010371/
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> with changes in the test of the return value of getaddrinfo for Unix Inet 4 and 6 and Windows Inet 6. The usual testing is in progress.
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> Brian
This looks better, although I think I would reverse re-write the 
expressions to "if (error = ...)".

One thing to consider is whether this condition is really worth 
introducing HostLookupException, particularly when it doesn't include 
additional information (except to distinguish it from its supertype). If 
a new exception is really needed then maybe it could add the error 
message obtained from gai_strerror, alternatively maybe you could 
considered setting the cause of the UHE to something like an IOException 
with the translation of the error.

-Alan.