RFR: 8275319 java.net.NetworkInterface throws java.lang.Error instead of SocketException [v3]

[Daniel Jeliński]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 06:42:43 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Daniel Jeliński has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>> 
>>   Fix crash on GetIpAddrTable error
>
> src/java.base/windows/native/libnet/NetworkInterface_winXP.c line 123:
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>> 121:                 // not an error
>> 122:                 *adapters = NULL;
>> 123:                 return ERROR_SUCCESS;
> 
> Mapping ERROR_NO_DATA to ERROR_SUCCESS is probably correct here. Could this explain bug reports that seem to be from configurations with no IP addresses plumbed?

I suppose it could. But in order to get ERROR_NO_DATA here one would need to disable loopback interface. I couldn't find how to do that.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5956