I am confused how this method is supposed to work. It has a boolean parameter that is documented to be used to distinguish between datagram and stream sockets. However, it is only used by Socket and ServerSocket, so I guess it must always be a stream socket? But it gets worse. The PlainSocketImpl.create() calls socketCreate() with that parameter, where it is documented to be used to distinguish between server and client socket (is there a difference??). Looking into the native code for that thought, this method calls JVM_Socket() with that parameter to distinguish between datagram and stream sockets. Something does not fit here... Is this parameter used at all?
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