> On 22 Sep 2016, at 18:04, Mark Sheppard <mark.shepp...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> it is good that you added  the additional error code, "cover all bases", as 
> they say.
> In any case your exception handling will inform if  something has been 
> missed, should it occur.
> So at the risk of triggering another MS curiosity, the changes look fine

+1 

-Chris.

> regards
> Mark
> 
> On 21/09/2016 19:45, Rob McKenna wrote:
>> The link would be handy:
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~robm/8159410/webrev.02/
>> 
>>      -Rob
>> 
>> On 21/09/16 07:44, Rob McKenna wrote:
>>> I've updated the webrev here with the copyright year (thanks Christoph) and 
>>> extra error codes. I overlooked the codes from the old implementation of 
>>> tcp_ping4 above this code. These are winsock error codes which I would 
>>> expect IcmpSendEcho to use, but in our testing it actually returned the 
>>> system error codes in at least one situation:
>>> 
>>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/ms740668%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms681383%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>>> 
>>>     -Rob
>>> 
>>> On 21/09/16 06:32, Seán Coffey wrote:
>>>> spotted an interesting blog on the MSDN timeout issue here :
>>>> https://www.frameflow.com/ping-utility-flaw-in-windows-api-creating-false-timeouts/
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Sean.
>>>> 
>>>> On 21/09/16 17:42, Mark Sheppard wrote:
>>>>> the IcmpSendEcho series of calls come with some idiosyncrasies in that
>>>>> there is a minimum timeout that they can handle
>>>>> think it is about 1000msecs. isReachable can specify a finer grained
>>>>> timeout hence the need for timeout check
>>>>> 
>>>>> regards
>>>>> Mark
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 21/09/2016 17:18, Vyom Tewari wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Rob,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Do you really think this extra check is required ?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> if (pEchoReply->Status == IP_SUCCESS
>>>>>> + && (int)pEchoReply->RoundTripTime <= timeout) I did not found any
>>>>>> doc(MSDN) which explains this. I think in case of IP_SUCCESS
>>>>>> "RoundTripTime" is always less than timeout. I think similar changes is
>>>>>> required in Inet6Address.c as well ? Thanks, Vyom
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wednesday 21 September 2016 08:46 PM, Rob McKenna wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'd like to fix a bug caused by an incorrect assumption. The 
>>>>>>> IcmpSendEcho* calls can actually return a similar set of errors 
>>>>>>> regardless of whether the call itself failed or succeeded. This change 
>>>>>>> checks that both the call and the ping were successful. In addition to 
>>>>>>> that it takes a number of common failure causes into account before 
>>>>>>> deciding to throw an exception.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~robm/8159410/webrev.01/
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>         -Rob
> 

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