7161881: (dc) DatagramChannel.bind(null) fails if IPv4 socket and running with preferIPv6Addresses=true

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Jun 6 14:02:11 PDT 2012


On 06/06/2012 21:47, Rob McKenna wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Small bug with in DatagramChannel where 
> Java.net.preferIPv6Addresses=true is causing bind(null) to use an ipv6 
> address even though we're connected to an ipv4 socket.
>
> Additional context:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-dev/2012-April/001632.html
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~robm/7161881/webrev.01/
>
>     -Rob
Thanks Rob, this looks fine except for the outer try-catch in the test 
which I think should be removed (meaning no need to catch IOException 
and re-throw as RuntimeException).

-Alan.


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