Code Review 6966846: Incorrect assertion in java.net.Inet6Address.readObject

[Chris Hegarty]

Michael,

CR 6966846: Incorrect assertion in java.net.Inet6Address.readObject

The readObject implementation tries to determine the scope_id of the 
network interface, given its name ( if there is one ). It in correctly 
asserts that the interface must have at least one IPv6 address of the 
same site or link local prefix. The deserialization may be happening on 
different machine, that has the same interface name and may not have 
IPv6 enabled. This assertion is too strong and should be removed.

This problem causes test/java/net/Inet6Address/serialize/Serialize.java 
to fail on some test machines, when run with assertions enabled.

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   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/6966846/webrev.00/webrev/

Thanks,
-Chris.