RFR: 8376290: SocketChannel.finishConnect() contains confusing "getsockopt" in exception message for a failed connect() on Windows [v6]

[Alan Bateman]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:55:11 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review of this change which proposes to remove the confusing "getsockopt" text from the exception reported on Windows when `SocketChannel.finishConnect()` raises an exception due to a failed `connect()`? 
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>> This addresses https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8376290 and as noted in that issue, this looks like an oversight when changes were done for https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8317603. Prior to that, on older versions the exception reported on Windows was:
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>> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: no further information
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>> With the current proposed changes in this PR, the exception will now be `java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused` which matches what we report on *nix platforms.
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>> A new jtreg test has been added to reproduce the original text and verify the change. tier1, tier2 and tier3 continue to pass with this change.
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> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   update code comment in test

Marked as reviewed by alanb (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29409#pullrequestreview-3716522015