Socket usage in PlainSocketImpl.initProto()

[James Melvin]

Hi Jeff,

Someone on the Libraries team might be in a better position to answer
your question.  I'll forward.

- Jim


Jeffrey Sinclair wrote:
> hotspot-dev,
> 
> I've been looking at the lsof output of my hotspot process and noticed
> the following:
> 
> java    14429 jeffsinc    8r  sock     0,4             3932632 can't
> identify protocol
> 
> The above appears on the first ServerSocket that is ever opened and
> remains after all ServerSockets have been closed. After a little
> investigation I've found that the socket is opened in the initialization
> of the PlainSocketImpl class, specifically in the native initProto()
> method.
> 
> I'm curious to know what is done in the network stack initialization
> phase that requires a socket to be opened as well as for the socket to
> remain open thereafter.
> 
> Jeff
>