Scatter/Gather support on DatagramChannel

[Alan Bateman]

David M. Lloyd wrote:
> DatagramChannel has scatter/gather support for connected sockets but 
> not unconnected sockets.
>
> How about adding a couple methods:
>
>   SocketAddress receive(ByteBuffer[] dsts) throws IOException;
>
>   SocketAddress receive(ByteBuffer[] dsts, int offset, int length) 
> throws IOException;
>
>   long send(ByteBuffer[] src, SocketAddress target) throws IOException;
>
>   long send(ByteBuffer[] src, int offset, int length, SocketAddress 
> target) throws IOException;
>
> I for one use scatter/gather frequently, and would really welcome such 
> methods on DatagramChannel.
>
> Thanks,
> - DML
6696470 is tracking this but it has been low priority (and is a bit more 
work that might be apparent because it requires replacing part of the 
existing implementation, Windows mostly, but also work on other platforms).

-Alan.