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| author | Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de> | 2004-05-05 06:56:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de> | 2004-05-05 06:56:39 +0000 |
| commit | 442730f221b0ff97556feadf6709ade89a732811 (patch) | |
| tree | 31f80158e935ed73b97ab7ee2edb090bae31feed | |
| parent | ef6f63f477844ad5ed6f496cd9e4f679908bd662 (diff) | |
| download | classpath-442730f221b0ff97556feadf6709ade89a732811.tar.gz | |
2004-05-05 Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de>
* java/net/NetworkInterface.java
(getByName): Return null when no interface was found.
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | java/net/NetworkInterface.java | 14 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2004-05-05 Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de> + + * java/net/NetworkInterface.java + (getByName): Return null when no interface was found. + 2004-05-02 Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> * configure.ac: Set version to 0.09+cvs. diff --git a/java/net/NetworkInterface.java b/java/net/NetworkInterface.java index e7f7290fe..ab6d7b426 100644 --- a/java/net/NetworkInterface.java +++ b/java/net/NetworkInterface.java @@ -130,12 +130,15 @@ public final class NetworkInterface } /** - * Returns an network interface by name + * Returns an network interface by name * - * @param name The name of the interface to return + * @param name The name of the interface to return + * + * @return a <code>NetworkInterface</code> object representing the interface, + * or null if there is no interface with that name. * - * @exception SocketException If an error occurs - * @exception NullPointerException If the specified name is null + * @exception SocketException If an error occurs + * @exception NullPointerException If the specified name is null */ public static NetworkInterface getByName(String name) throws SocketException @@ -150,7 +153,8 @@ public final class NetworkInterface return tmp; } - throw new SocketException("no network interface with this name exists"); + // No interface with the given name found. + return null; } /** |