kernel,stdlib: Remove obsolete use of send with 'noconnect'

as workarounds to avoid blocking auto-connect,
which is now asynchronous in OTP-21.

Also changed old catch to more efficient try-catch.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/net_kernel.erl b/lib/kernel/src/net_kernel.erl
index cdb10a7b12..f38989d103 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/src/net_kernel.erl
+++ b/lib/kernel/src/net_kernel.erl
@@ -1777,16 +1777,16 @@ async_reply({reply, Msg, State}, From) ->
 async_gen_server_reply(From, Msg) ->
     {Pid, Tag} = From,
     M = {Tag, Msg},
-    case catch erlang:send(Pid, M, [nosuspend, noconnect]) of
+    try erlang:send(Pid, M, [nosuspend, noconnect]) of
         ok ->
             ok;
         nosuspend ->
             _ = spawn(fun() -> catch erlang:send(Pid, M, [noconnect]) end),
 	    ok;
         noconnect ->
-            ok; % The gen module takes care of this case.
-        {'EXIT', _} ->
-            ok
+            ok % The gen module takes care of this case.
+    catch
+        _:_ -> ok
     end.
 
 call_owner(Owner, Msg) ->
diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl b/lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl
index 0e0b7dffa3..917e725fd6 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl
+++ b/lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl
@@ -418,10 +418,7 @@ abcast(Name, Mess) ->
 
 abcast([Node|Tail], Name, Mess) ->
     Dest = {Name,Node},
-    case catch erlang:send(Dest, Mess, [noconnect]) of
-	noconnect -> spawn(erlang, send, [Dest,Mess]), ok;
-	_ -> ok
-    end,
+    try erlang:send(Dest, Mess) catch error:_ -> ok end,
     abcast(Tail, Name, Mess);
 abcast([], _,_) -> abcast.