RFR: JDK-8249550: jdb should use loopback address when not using remote agent

Alex Menkov alexey.menkov at oracle.com
Tue Jul 21 22:04:51 UTC 2020


Hi all,

please review the fix for
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8249550

webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~amenkov/jdk16/jdb_loopback/webrev/

some background:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8041435 made default listening 
on loopback address.
Later https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8184770 added handling of 
"*" address to listen on all addresses, but it didn't fixed "default" 
startListening() method (used by jdb through SunCommandLineLauncher).

The method called startListening(String localaddress, int port) with 
localaddress == null, but this method for null localladdress starts 
listening on all addresses (i.e. handle null value as "*").
The fix changes it to startListening(String address) which handles null 
address the same way as JDI socket connector does (i.e. listens on 
loopback address only)

--alex


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