[jdk7u-dev] Request for approval: 7180557

[Rob McKenna]

I'm conflicted.

It seems that quite a few Mac developers are running into this problem. 
The fact that this code has been effectively transplanted from Apple's 
JDK gives me a high degree of confidence in the fix. (it has already had 
plenty of bake time in JDK6) Now that I think about it though, waiting a 
couple of weeks won't stop us getting into 7u60 so I guess its no harm.

I'll revisit this in a fortnight as suggested.

     -Rob

On 09/10/13 08:40, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> Rob,
>
> I'm second to Alan.
>
> -Dmitry
>
>
> On 2013-10-09 11:22, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 09/10/2013 00:20, Rob McKenna wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> 7180557: InetAddress.getLocalHost throws UnknownHostException on
>>> java7u5 on OSX webbugs
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/f1e31376f419
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7180557
>>>
>>> 8 review thread:
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2013-September/007211.html
>>>
>>>      -Rob
>>>
>> Rob - what you would think about giving this a few weeks of bake time in
>> 8 before pushing it to jdk7u-dev? I realize it is tempting to get it
>> pushed now while the patch is fresh (and maybe that is okay), it's just
>> that all changes in this area have had a history of change behavior in
>> subtle ways and these take time to surface.
>>
>> -Alan.
>