Request for approval: 7014860: Socket.getInputStream().available() not clear for shutdown input

[Alan Bateman]

On 24/10/2012 10:27, Sean Chou wrote:
> Hello,
>
>      This is request for approval to push the fix of 7014860 to jdk7u,
> please take a look.
>
> Link to the bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7014860
>
> Changeset in jdk8: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/a5a28b040714
>
> The webrev for jdk7u is the same with changeset of jdk8 without any change.
> Building on windows and linux passes; jtreg test contained passes.
>
> Review threads:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2011-January/002607.html
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2011-February/002704.html
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2011-April/003076.html
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2011-July/003274.html
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2011-August/003383.html
>
For the record I would prefer that this change not be backported to 
jdk7u. The reason is that is involves a specification change and also a 
subtle change in behavior on both Linux and Windows that seems 
inappropriate to do in an update release.

-Alan.