RFR 8231187: SelectorProvider.inheritedChannel() returns TCP socket channel for Unix domain socket

[Alan Bateman]

On 20/09/2019 11:56, Michael McMahon wrote:
>
> Is the above not required only to allow draining of the socket when 
> SO_LINGER is enabled,
> which is not supported in this case?
It's needed to coordinate closing with threads that are doing blocking 
I/O on the channel. SourceChannelImpl and SinkChannelImpl are good 
starting point because they are close to what you want, without all the 
additional details that SocketChannelImpl needs to be concerned with.

-Alan