[jdk7u-dev] Request for approval: 7180557

[Rob McKenna]

One the offchance there is some low hanging fruit (obvious problems) it 
probably makes sense to avoid pushing then backing out in 7. Presuming 
nobody starts throwing stuff at me in the mean time, I'm happy to wait a 
couple of weeks.

     -Rob

On 09/10/13 16:19, Jeff Dinkins wrote:
> 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.