RFR 8245194: Unix domain socket channel implementation

[Alan Bateman]

On 17/07/2020 15:57, Michael McMahon wrote:
> :
>
> I have added a new revision of the webrevs/specdiffs including these 
> and Daniel's comments at:
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> [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~michaelm/8245194/api.webrev/webrev.5/
How tied are you to adding getProtocolFamily to these APIs? It's 
technically an incompatible change to add abstract methods to these 
classes although the number of implementations outside of the JDK is 
probably tiny. I guess I'm mostly wondering if the method is actually 
useful. I could imagine a testing checking to see if a channel is 
unbound and then binding it to a socket address that is appropriate for 
the channel's socket but I'm less sure about other uses. Are you mostly 
thinking diagnostics, in which case it can be in the string representation.

-Alan