RFR: 7116990: (spec) Socket.connect(addr,timeout) not clear if IOException because of TCP timeout [v5]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:40:10 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review of this doc-only change which proposes to add a `@apiNote` to the `Socket.connect(SocketAddress endpoint, int timeout)` method? This addresses https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-7116990.
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>> As noted in that issue, users can find it surprising that when the `Socket.connect(...)` method is called with a `timeout` value, then if that timeout value happens to be greater than the connect timeout that operating systems typically impose, then a `IOException` gets thrown instead of the `SocketTimeoutException`. The change in this PR proposes to add a `@apiNote` which explains this current behaviour.
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>> If this requires a CSR, I'll open one once we settle on the proposed text.
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> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Alan's suggestion

The CSR has been approved. Thank you all for the inputs and reviews. I'll go ahead with the integration.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25690#issuecomment-2982365926