RFR: 8155902: DataOutputStream writeInt creates 2 packets instead of 1 [v2]

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 18:14:16 GMT, Roger Riggs <rriggs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> I would not want to give any assurances about whether the bytes of an encoded primitive were written individually or as a group.
>> 
>> Would it be helpful to add further verbiage?
>> 
>> For example, the sequence of bytes comprising the primitive data type may be written as more than one packet of bytes.
>
> "packet" is network centric terminology.
> Perhaps something like:  "may be written individually or in any grouping of bytes"

Commit 43c392e8c797f5a5c29a67e87f350e8dc9c5b190 changed it to

The write methods of this class delegate to the methods
of the underlying output stream, hence there is no 
guarantee as to the details of how the bytes are written.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14791#discussion_r1258602797