Doychin, et al, I finally got time to look at the issue you reported and your suggested patch. I filed 8158519 [1] to track the issue. I think your suggested patch may be ok, but I just wanted to push on the ioctl approach. I found an alternative, and verified that it works as expected. Please take a look, and verify in your environment. Then we need to weigh up the two separate approaches.
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8158519.00/ For the record, I don’t have any specific issue with using getifaddrs, I just wanted to see if there was a less invasive change. That said, using getifaddrs could lead to cleaner code, but we would need to check the situation on AIX ( which I don’t have access to ). -Chris. [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8158519
