FYI: Win32 InetAddress fix (really)
David Daney
ddaney@avtrex.com
Tue Oct 3 15:10:00 GMT 2006
Gary Benson wrote:
> + // Some soon-to-be-removed native code synchronizes on this.
> + loopbackAddress = LOCALHOST;
> + }
> + catch (UnknownHostException e)
> + {
> + throw new RuntimeException("should never happen", e);
> + }
>
Would it be better to throw an InternalError here rather than
RuntimeException? If it truly should never happen then it would be an
InternalError if it did. If it can happen, then it should be of some
type the describes the problem.
David Daney
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