On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:56:35 GMT, David Holmes <dhol...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> We can replace `gethostbyname`, which is deprecated on Windows and Linux, 
>> with `getaddrinfo`. This API is available on all supported platforms and so 
>> can be placed in shared code. @djelinski pointed out that `getaddrinfo` can 
>> resolve both IP addresses and host names so the two step approach used in 
>> `networkStream::connect` is not necessary and we can do away with 
>> `os::get_host_by_name()` completely.
>> 
>> The build is updated to enable winsock deprecation warnings, and now we need 
>> to use `ws2_32.lib` we can drop `wsock32.lib` (as it is basically a subset - 
>> again thanks @djelinski ).
>> 
>> Testing
>>     - all Oracle builds in tiers 1-5
>>     - All GHA builds
>> 
>> The actual code change has to be manually tested because the code is only 
>> used by Ideal Graph Printing to connect to the Ideal Graph Visualizer. I've 
>> manually tested on Windows and Linux and @tobiasholenstein tested macOS.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>
> David Holmes has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Restrict getaddrinfo to IPv4 only as per the rest of the code

Marked as reviewed by djelinski (Committer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12842

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