Re: Datagram sockets: SO_BROADCAST

[Dr. Torsten Rupp]

Dear Mark,

> The 1.4 API doc for java.net.SocketOptions indicates that SO_BROADCAST
> is set by default for DatagramSockets.
>
> This also seems to be what libgcj does.
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gcc/gcc/libjava/java/net/natPlainDatagramSocketImplPosix.cc?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>
> So please add it and please also update out documentation of
> DatagramSocket.get/setBroadcast() to say that it is on by default.

Thank you for the information. I will add the changes I did.

Sincerely,

Torsten