On 30/04/2013 20:42, Chris Hegarty wrote:
This is a conformance issue where getHardwareAddress may incorrectly
return a zero length byte array, rather than null. The spec allows for
null, in fact it requires it for such cases. The issue is reproducible
with newer versions of Windows, with IPv6 enabled.
The problem is in
src/windows/native/java/net/NetworkInterface_winXP.c.
PhysicalAddressLength can be 0, in which case the byte array should
not be created, rather than creating a 0 length byte[].
From msdn:
"PhysicalAddressLength
Type: DWORD
The length, in bytes, of the address specified in the
PhysicalAddress member. For interfaces that do not have
a data-link layer, this value is zero."
Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/6594296/webrev.00/webrev/
-Chris.
This looks okay to me.
-Alan
