Unable to start process using Runtime - Solved

[Michael Franz]

Greg,

What publicly available information should we not be looking at?  I have not
looked at the JDK code until it became the OpenJDK.  I found the list email
by googling for the specific function that was not working
(closeDescriptors).

Michael

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 11:27:32AM -0700, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:35, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:55:36PM -0400, Michael Franz wrote:
> > >> Martin,
> > >>
> > >> Here are the changes that work for OS X.
> > >
> > > FWIW, this is the patch I have locally to make it work.  This is also
> > > one of the three patches that we couldn't port over from the JRL port
> > > since we didn't have an SCA from the contributor.  I haven't approached
> > > Michiel Boland (who originally came up with it) about doing so, but he
> > > may be willing to submit an SCA.  Otherwise we'll have to wait until
> > > someone does this in a clean room manner (it looks like you obtained
> > > it from the mail archives?).
> >
> > I've never looked at the actual BSD port sources, so I consider myself
> > JRL-untainted.
> >
> > Sun (and the BSD port team)
> > should make it a priority to "liberate" any source code under JRL
> > so that it can be incorporated into future JDKs.  I thought that had
> > already happened for the BSD sources.  The other body of work
> > that is currently JRL-encumbered is Ulf Zibis' work.
>
> We have.  There are three individual fixes that were contributed by
> different people and some NetBSD work that the author wasn't able to
> get permission to contribute that remain "unliberated".  I suspect the
> three individuals may be willing to send in an SCA, I just need to
> send them an email.  The NetBSD changes are more problematic, but
> they are something anyone interested in making things work on NetBSD
> would probably be able to reconstruct without too much difficulty.
>
> The main reason the BSD port of OpenJDK took so long to get under way
> was getting the legal side of things squared away.  A lot of people
> spent time making sure we got 99% of the existing SCSL, JRL and partner
> changes in.
>
> --
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