Bug 4715154

[Rémi Forax]

Yes, make sense.

Rémi

On 06/27/2011 06:03 PM, Ulf Zibis wrote:
> +1
>
> -Ulf
>
>
> Am 27.06.2011 17:57, schrieb Sean Mullan:
>> Hey Alan,
>>
>> Would it be a good idea if we add this Windows limitation to the NIO 
>> javadocs somewhere, say in the FileChannel class? I spent a lot of 
>> time chasing this down until I finally figured out it was a known issue.
>>
>> --Sean
>>
>> On 6/27/11 9:19 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>> Sean Mullan wrote:
>>>> Several jigsaw unit tests are failing on Windows because of bug 
>>>> 4715154 [1]
>>>> which was closed a long time ago as "Will Not Fix". Does anyone 
>>>> have any
>>>> suggestions as the best way to workaround this, short of replacing 
>>>> the call to
>>>> FileChannel.map with FileChannel.read? Are there any plans to fix 
>>>> this in the
>>>> future?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sean
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4715154
>>> This is a limitation of Windows and I'm not aware of any way to 
>>> create a
>>> file-mapping that would allow the file be deleted while the mapping 
>>> exists (if
>>> there is a way then it would be great to know about it). In a couple 
>>> of tests
>>> we've had to do an ugly System.gc() + short sleep at the end of the 
>>> test to
>>> trigger the unmap.
>>>
>>> -Alan
>>