Hello Chris, Alan & all. Thank you for your discussions with František and thanks for outlining various directions to move his inquiry forward.
> You will need to find a sponsor Right. I feel motivated to help, as I talked František into contributing rather than hacking around the problems he had found in Unix domain socket support in the OpenJDK... > ( a committer on the JDK project ) However I am [just an author](https://openjdk.java.net/census#jtulach), so I can't really drive a JEP to create a completely new feature. Moreover I agree that ... > If I'm not mistaken, then this is your first contribution to OpenJDK ... starting contributing to OpenJDK by driving own JEP is a bit too challenging. As such I suggest to scale down the contribution as much as possible. No new features, no enhancements, just let František fix a bug. I've just reported https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8230380 I hope we all agree that letting a Java program read an uninitialized memory is a vulnerability and that it deserves to be fixed. I let František come up with a webrev and I update the bug accordingly. Hopefully we then find a committer to apply the fix. Thank you all for guiding František through the process of his first OpenJDK contribution! Jaroslav Tulach NetBeans Platform Architect OpenJDK (Graal & Metropolis) Author OracleLabs Dne pondělí 19. srpna 2019 12:47:14 CEST, Chris Hegarty napsal(a): > Franta, > > > On 19 Aug 2019, at 09:34, František Kučera <franta-j...@frantovo.cz> > > wrote: > > > > ... > > can anyone tell me how to continue? I can change the code (the patch was > > only proof-of-concept, fast hack) or change the design (e.g. creating a > > new module instead of patching existing classes) but before I spend more > > time with this task, I need to know, whether there is interest to have > > AF_UNIX (AF_LOCAL) support in the OpenJDK (see the first e-mail in this > > thread for what I mean by "support”). > From my perspective, it would be reasonable to continue to investigate > the possibility of supporting Unix domain sockets in the JDK. Such a > feature would likely need a JEP [1]. > > If I'm not mistaken, then this is your first contribution to OpenJDK > ( it's a pretty significant/large one to start with! ). You will need > to find a sponsor ( a committer on the JDK project ), that is both > motivated to help you drive the design and implementation, as well as > having the time available to do so ( I, unfortunately, do not ). > > While this feature does, on the face of it, seem reasonable, in terms of > priority, it does not bubble up the list of other things that we want to > do, like; providing support for the newer URI/IRI, improved IPv6-only > support, RDMA Network Sockets, etc. > > -Chris. > > [1] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/0
