RFR: JDK-8175325 - NetworkInterface.getInterfaceAddresses throws NPE when no addresses

[Mark Sheppard]

Chris, Martin,
    thanks for the feedback .... I'll remove the initialization from the 
constructor

regards
Mark

On 07/03/2017 15:17, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> Mark,
>
>> On 6 Mar 2017, at 23:21, Mark Sheppard <mark.sheppard at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> tha's true from the Java side. I didn't exhaustively check if is possible that the bindings could
>> be returned uninitialized or null from native code - I don't think it is possible, but I added the
>> null check, just in case.
> I agree with Martin’s comment. The null check should be sufficient.
> …
>
>>> There is a side issue here, relating to the synthesis of a NetworkInterface for a MulticastSocket
>>> bound to a wildcard address. This is somewhat dubious semantics, and would seem to be worthy of review
>>> at some stage in the future.
> Yes, this should be looked at in some more detail in the future.
>
> -Chris.