The following JIRA issue has been filed to track this: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8222363
-Chris. P.S. my bad! I missed this case when working on 6505016 ( in 2007! ) > On 11 Apr 2019, at 16:27, Norman Maurer <norman.mau...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Ok thanks… update to the java docs sounds good to me. I was just suprised by > the behaviour :) > >> On 11. Apr 2019, at 17:12, Michael McMahon <michael.x.mcma...@oracle.com >> <mailto:michael.x.mcma...@oracle.com>> wrote: >> >> Norman >> >> The specification on what happens to all socket types was updated many years >> ago >> in bug id 6505016, but it looks like ServerSocket::isBound was missed from >> that effort. >> I think we should probably update the spec to reflect current behavior and >> be consistent >> with the change above. There will be some small spec updates to ServerSocket >> coming >> which originated from the SocketImpl replacement work that Alan mentioned >> recently >> and I think we can include this small change probably with one of those. >> >> Michael. >> >> On 11/04/2019, 13:40, Norman Maurer wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> While working on netty I just noticed that a ServerSocket will keep return >>> true when isBound() is called even after it was closed. Is this by design? >>> I was bit surprised by this honestly as after the socket is closed there is >>> no way it will accept any more connections.