diff -r 32565ca20073 -r 89050b0a21e3 hotspot/src/os/windows/vm/os_windows.cpp
--- a/hotspot/src/os/windows/vm/os_windows.cpp	Sat Mar 30 08:01:05 2013 -0700
+++ b/hotspot/src/os/windows/vm/os_windows.cpp	Tue Apr 02 09:30:07 2013 +0200
@@ -3768,6 +3768,8 @@
   }
 }
 
+static jint initSock();
+
 // this is called _after_ the global arguments have been parsed
 jint os::init_2(void) {
   // Allocate a single page and mark it as readable for safepoint polling
@@ -3898,6 +3900,10 @@
     if (!success) UseNUMAInterleaving = false;
   }
 
+  if (initSock() != JNI_OK) {
+    return JNI_ERR;
+  }
+
   return JNI_OK;
 }
 
@@ -4894,42 +4900,24 @@
 // We don't build a headless jre for Windows
 bool os::is_headless_jre() { return false; }
 
-
-typedef CRITICAL_SECTION mutex_t;
-#define mutexInit(m)    InitializeCriticalSection(m)
-#define mutexDestroy(m) DeleteCriticalSection(m)
-#define mutexLock(m)    EnterCriticalSection(m)
-#define mutexUnlock(m)  LeaveCriticalSection(m)
-
-static bool sock_initialized = FALSE;
-static mutex_t sockFnTableMutex;
-
-static void initSock() {
+static jint initSock() {
   WSADATA wsadata;
 
   if (!os::WinSock2Dll::WinSock2Available()) {
-    jio_fprintf(stderr, "Could not load Winsock 2 (error: %d)\n",
+    jio_fprintf(stderr, "Could not load Winsock (error: %d)\n",
       ::GetLastError());
-    return;
-  }
-  if (sock_initialized == TRUE) return;
-
-  ::mutexInit(&sockFnTableMutex);
-  ::mutexLock(&sockFnTableMutex);
-  if (os::WinSock2Dll::WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(1,1), &wsadata) != 0) {
-      jio_fprintf(stderr, "Could not initialize Winsock\n");
-  }
-  sock_initialized = TRUE;
-  ::mutexUnlock(&sockFnTableMutex);
+    return JNI_ERR;
+  }
+
+  if (os::WinSock2Dll::WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsadata) != 0) {
+    jio_fprintf(stderr, "Could not initialize Winsock (error: %d)\n",
+      ::GetLastError());
+    return JNI_ERR;
+  }
+  return JNI_OK;
 }
 
 struct hostent* os::get_host_by_name(char* name) {
-  if (!sock_initialized) {
-    initSock();
-  }
-  if (!os::WinSock2Dll::WinSock2Available()) {
-    return NULL;
-  }
   return (struct hostent*)os::WinSock2Dll::gethostbyname(name);
 }