[Fwd: PlainSocketImpl.socketGetOption1() ?]

Roman Kennke roman.kennke at aicas.com
Thu Oct 11 10:56:00 PDT 2007


Hi Christopher,

> This method was added as part of the changes for 4868820: "IPv6 support 
> for Windows XP and 2003 server", back in 1.5. But I cannot see anywhere 
> that it is called, or as you said even implemented, even when it was 
> originally added. I suspect that it was left over from some redesign 
> when adding the IPv6 support.
> 
> I actually noticed this went adding support for the dual TCP/IP stack in 
> vista, DualStackPlainSocketImpl, and even added a comment to remind me 
> to remove it!

The methods java.net.NetworkInterface.getSubnet0() and
java.net.NetworkInterface.getBroadcast0() seem to be affected by the
same problem. May I propose the attached patch to fix?

/Roman
 
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