suggestions for improvement in java.net APIs

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon May 6 00:28:53 PDT 2013


On 05/05/2013 12:19, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> Alan,
>
> SO_BINDTODEVICE shouldn't be used in modern applications because it
> causes more problems than solves.
>
> e.g. prevents application from handling on-fly device changes.
>
The use-case is where an application wants to control the network or 
source address.

-Alan.



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