Socket InputStream.available may return a positive value after shutdown

[Steve Poole]

On 06/07/11 10:05, Jing LV wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     Alan (or anyone else), do we have time to discuss these postponed 
> defects? Or do you have a outlook for this?
>     Thank you.

Hi Jimmy - it may be that everyone is very busy with the Java 7 launch 
and, probably,  collapsing in a heap after all their great work :-)
Also it might be worth reposting a summary of the defects you want to 
discuss just to remind people.

>
> 于 2011-4-27 18:35, Alan Bateman 写道:
>> Jing LV wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>     Currently I don't see any patch available so I am trying to 
>>> create one by myself. I see the problem occurs in 
>>> AbstractPlainSocketImpl.available() and it seems it is design to 
>>> return 0 when meed a closed socket - this may not be correct 
>>> according to the spec, thus change it like this. Would someone 
>>> review please?
>> I don't think I understand your proposed change as the connection 
>> isn't reset in this case. Maybe you meant to change available to 
>> check shut_rd? In any case, I think we need to be cautious as it 
>> would change the behavior for the EOF case and so could cause 
>> problems for existing applications. There is also a concern for 
>> custom SocketImpl implementations that I mentioned previously. I 
>> think that whatever approach is decided on will also require adding 
>> clarification to the javadoc. So if it's okay with you, I think we 
>> should postpone this to 8.
>>
>> -Alan
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