java.net.NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces does not work properly on AIX with IPv6

[Jonathan Lu]

On 10/20/2011 01:24 PM, Jonathan Lu wrote:
> On 10/19/2011 06:03 PM, Steve Poole wrote:
>> On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 15:14 +0800, Jonathan Lu wrote:
>>> Hi net-devs,
>>>
>>> I've got a problem on AIX operating system when IPv6 is enabled,which
>>> can be easily reproduced by attached test case 
>>> NetworkInterfaceTest.java.
>>> On AIX paltform, the /proc file system behaves differently from Linux,
>>> so we cannot just read required lines from /proc/net/if_inet6 but to
>>> call ioctl to get needed information. A patch is available for OpenJDK8
>>> code base, see attachment patch.diff.
>>>
>>> Is anybody interested in this topic?
>>>
>>> I'm quite aware of the fact that so far there's no publicly available
>>> building scripts for OpenJDK8 on AIX operating system, but before
>>> everything settles down, is anybody willing to review the patch? any
>>> ideas about how to integrate it?
>>>
>>> Best regards!
>>>
>> Hi Jonathan -  can you add a copyright header to the testcase and see if
>> you can make the testcase fit into a jtreg test format?
>>
>>
>>
> Hi Steve,
> Thanks for your suggestion.
> I've updated the test case to fit into a jtreg format, see the 
> attachment NetworkInterfaceTest.java.
>
> - Jonathan

Here's an updated test case with a more clear copyright header.

- Jonathan
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