Mystery comment

[Bill Frantz]

At 12:35 AM 1/14/99 -0800, Eric Messick wrote:
>In message <4.1.19990113233730.009e92b0@ricochet.net>, "Mark S. Miller"
<markm@caplet.com> wrote:
>>NetAddr.java has the following method:
>>
>>    /**
>>     * Produce a printable representation of this.
>>     * @return A nicely formatted string representing this address.
>>     */
>>    public String toString() {
>>        // XXX this should be a call to justAddr, but windows can't
>>        // handle the dotted.quad address
>>        return justAddr(myInetAddress.toString()) + ":" + myPortNumber;
>>    }
>>
>>After the comment is a call to justAddr(), but this doesn't seem to have
>>been causing any problems I've noticed on Windows.  What problem is/was
>>this about?  Should we still be worried about this?
>
>This one's mine.  The InetAddress code bottoms out in a native call.
>The solaris version always worked fine, but the windows one would fail
>to accept an InetAddress that was specified as a dotted quad
>(127.0.0.1).  Perhaps it's been fixed.

[#] I think it has been fixed.