RFR 8004675: Inet6Address.getHostAddress should use string scope identifier where available
Michael McMahon
michael.x.mcmahon at oracle.com
Tue Dec 11 01:50:40 PST 2012
On 10/12/12 16:01, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>
> Inet6Address.getHostAddress() is specified to return the IP address
> string in textual presentation, followed by a '%' character and the
> scope identifier. This scope identifier can be either a numeric value
> or a string, depending on how the instance was created (if it was
> created with a scoped interface).
>
> This change proposes to remove the boolean field, 'scope_ifname_set',
> since it is not always correctly set when the instance contains a
> valid scoped interface. For example, when iterating over the
> NetworkInterface's on the system. 'scope_ifname_set' was never
> accessed from native code, so it can simply be removed.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8004675/webrev.00/webrev/
>
> -Chris.
Looks fine.
Michael
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