On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 13:53:00 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Can I please get a review of this minor enhancement to the error text that is > reported if the `getaddrinfo()` native call returns the `EAI_SYSTEM` error? > This addresses https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8227493. > > The `java.net.InetAddress` class, in its implementation for resolving > addresses for a host name, calls the `getaddrinfo()` native call on *nix > platforms. If `getaddrinfo()` returns an error then we use the > `gai_strerror()` native call to convert the error number into an error string > that is then propagated to the application. Among other errors, the > `getaddrinfo()` is specified to return the error code `EAI_SYSTEM` which as > per its documentation represents > >> EAI_SYSTEM system error returned in errno > > So calling `gai_strerror()` merely returns a generic "System error" text. The > real underlying error is present in the `errno` and that has more useful > information. > > The commit in this PR checks the error for `EAI_SYSTEM` and if it matches > then it additionally gets the error text corresponding to `errno`. So the > error text that gets propagated will now be "System error: Illegal byte > sequence", assuming `EILSEQ` was the underlying `errno` for the `getaddrinfo` > call (my use of `EILSEQ` in this example is arbitrary and it's merely to show > what the error text will look like after this change). > > Given the nature of this change no new test has been introduced. Existing > tests in tier1, tier2 and tier3 continue to pass with this change. This pull request has been closed without being integrated. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22484
