RFR: JDK-8317603: provide handleSocketErrorWithMessage in windows Net.c for extended exception messages

[Matthias Baesken]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 14:33:14 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

> On Windows, we miss a handleSocketErrorWithMessage function that provides an additional message showing what went wrong in the Net.c coding.  On Unix we have this function. 
> This leads sometimes to exceptions like
> 
> MSG RTE: javax.naming.CommunicationException: example.com:1234 [Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: no further information]
> 
> see https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8317307
> 
> It would be better to have a message explaining the reason instead of "no further information" .

Hi Daniel, thanks for looking into it. I switched my calls to NET_ThrowNew and removed the 'failed' suffix of the message.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16057#issuecomment-1750096508