Improve registering signal handlers in java.lang.Terminator.setup()

[Alan Bateman]

On 08/08/2012 17:10, Neil Richards wrote:
> :
> Hi Alan,
> Apologies, I confused myself about the Hotspot behaviour.
> (I was testing with 'nohup', but not checking the contents of
> 'nohup.out' for the output from my registered shutdown hook - doh!).
>
> You're correct, when running with Hotspot with 'nohup', no exception is
> thrown when trying to register a handler for SIGHUP.
>
> When running with J9 with 'nohup', the VM notices that a handler
> registered for SIGHUP is never going to get triggered, so throws the
> exception to notify the caller (of Signal.handle( )) about this.
>
> Regards,
> Neil
This probably comes back to documenting the interface between the VM and 
the libraries that you and Steve are working on. In this case, 
JVM_RegisterSignal is expected to return 1 when the action is SIG_IGN 
where it sounds like J9 is returning -1.

-Alan.