From 2b5a9b0f60c65dde976b8c5964f841f41a58da27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chegar <unknown>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:18:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] 6966846: Incorrect assertion in
 java.net.Inet6Address.readObject Reviewed-by: michaelm

---
 jdk/src/share/classes/java/net/Inet6Address.java | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/jdk/src/share/classes/java/net/Inet6Address.java b/jdk/src/share/classes/java/net/Inet6Address.java
index 521dd499ea..d2b25af866 100644
--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/java/net/Inet6Address.java
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/java/net/Inet6Address.java
@@ -427,8 +427,9 @@ class Inet6Address extends InetAddress {
                     try {
                         scope_id = deriveNumericScope (scope_ifname);
                     } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
-                        // should not happen
-                        assert false;
+                        // typically should not happen, but it may be that
+                        // the machine being used for deserialization has
+                        // the same interface name but without IPv6 configured.
                     }
                 }
             } catch (SocketException e) {}
-- 
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