Review request: 7120875 fix macos ipv6 issue and update multiple test scripts

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Dec 14 13:50:17 PST 2011


On 14/12/2011 20:57, Michael McMahon wrote:
>
> A check for "os.version" in the shared version of MulticastSocket 
> would work. There's
> only a couple of lines of additional code required. But, then we don't 
> want os specific code
> in the shared tree either. Don't know if you have other suggestions? 
> This is just to workaround an issue in Macosx
> where (the Kame ipv6 stack is supposed to take care of default 
> scope_id's but doesn;t seem to be).
> It's possible this issue may get resolved some time in the future, 
> thus eliminating the need for the code.
> (I'll check this point with Mike anyway).
For the short term I don't think there's a problem with having some mac 
specific code in the shared code while a better solution is worked out. 
However, we need to make sure all these things are cleaned up before it 
goes to 7u or 8.

-Alan.



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