[Fwd: [PATCH]: Portability fixes]

[Alan Bateman]

Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
> Hi Alan, Christos,
>
> I've looked at the changes that Christos suggested and also how Martin 
> fixed UNIXProcess_md. Here is what I believe the final change should 
> look like.
>
> Comments:
> 1) "3. last is possibly uninitialized."
>    We have already fixed this in a previous changeset, see [1]
> 2) I made similar changes to Inet6AddressImpl as well as for Inet4
Thanks for taking this one. The jint -> socklen_t change looks good to me.

I'm not so sure about keeping the workaround for that old Solaris 
hostname parsing bug (4160367). I just checked Solaris 10 and 
OpenSolaris and I can't duplicate it (eg: ping "<space>" prints unknown 
host as expected). On older releases (I checked 8 and 9) then it 
duplicates readily (ping "<space>" prints "<space> is alive"). It might 
be worth checking into this as it may be that the workaround code can be 
removed, or at least only compiled on Solaris where it is needed.

-Alan.