A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
With the commit http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/021b47694183 the behavior of the method LdapCtx#reconnect() has changed. Previously, a call to LdapCtx#reconnect did not affect the current LdapClient. The change made in this commit creates a new LdapClient each time LdapCtx#reconnect is called. Because of the worker thread of the LDAP connection the former LdapClient remains alive and will never garbage collected.

If I understand the code correctly, the former LdapClient should be closed in LdapCtx#connect(boolean) by calling closeConnection(false) when we try to reconnect.

REGRESSION : Last worked in version 8u201


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