Martin, Here are the changes that work for OS X. Michael On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Martin Buchholz <martinrb@google.com>wrote:
Hi Michael,
I am the author of the changes to UNIXProcess_md.c. File descriptor 3 is used to communicate any cause of failure back to the parent process.
One might think that the openjdk7 code would work on BSD because if the standard way of opening /proc/self/fd, it falls back to closing all descriptors up to sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX), which one would think the BSDs would have implemented.
In any case, even if the current jdk7 code doesn't work on BSD, it should be easy to create a small patch to it that would be portable to more Unix systems, that could be accepted upstream. I would be willing to review.
Martin