[jdk7u-dev] Request for approval: 7180557

[Jeff Dinkins]

7u60 is quite a ways out, is it ok to bake in 7u-dev?


On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:27 AM, Rob McKenna <rob.mckenna at oracle.com> wrote:
> 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.
>> 
>