Need reviewer for 6894633: NetHooks hould not require provider to be present (sol)

[Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland]

The changes look fine.

-Chris.

On 23/10/2009 14:57, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 
> I need a reviewer for a small fix to sun.net.NetHooks. On Solaris, the 
> code incorrectly assumes that the sdp provider is always present. The 
> loadProvider method should return null if not present. The diffs are 
> attached.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alan.
> 
> 
> --- a/src/solaris/classes/sun/net/NetHooks.java
> +++ b/src/solaris/classes/sun/net/NetHooks.java
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ public final class NetHooks {
>                     try {
>                         c = (Class<Provider>)Class.forName(cn, true, null);
>                     } catch (ClassNotFoundException x) {
> -                        throw new AssertionError(x);
> +                        return null;
>                     }
>                     try {
>                         return c.newInstance();
>