Motivation:
ShutdownOutput now fails all pending writes in the ChannelOutboundBuffer and sets it to null. However the Close code path uses the ChannelOutboundBuffer as an indication that the close operation is in progress and exits early and will not call doClose. This will lead to the Channel not actually being fully closed.
Bug introduced by 237a4da1b7
Modifications:
- AbstractChannel#close shouldn't exit early just because outboundBuffer is null, and instead should use additional state closeInitiated to avoid duplicate close operations
Result:
AbstractChannel#close(..) after AbstractChannel#shutdownOutbound() will still invoke doClose and cleanup Channel state.
If you are on Linux, you need additional development packages installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport.
Note that this is build-time requirement. JDK 5 (for 3.x) or 6 (for 4.0+) is enough to run your Netty-based application.
Branches to look
Development of all versions takes place in each branch whose name is identical to <majorVersion>.<minorVersion>. For example, the development of 3.9 and 4.0 resides in the branch '3.9' and the branch '4.0' respectively.
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