RFR: 7155300 Include pthread.h on all POSIX platforms except Solaris to improve portability

[Shi Jun Zhang]

On 3/12/2012 11:28 AM, Shi Jun Zhang wrote:
> On 3/9/2012 6:05 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> On 9/03/2012 7:04 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>> On 09/03/2012 08:01, Shi Jun Zhang wrote:
>>>> The situation in NativeThread.c is more complicated than other 2
>>>> files. I'm not familiar with BSD or Mac. It seems that we don't need
>>>> to signal threads on BSD or Mac. And INTERRUPT_SIGNAL on AIX will
>>>> definitely be different from the one on Linux. I think we'd better
>>>> separate the changes in NativeThread.c from this patch and try to
>>>> solve it later.
>>> Right, if signals are required there is likely to be differences across
>>> platforms. It is also likely that this code will need to be changed for
>>> Mac too as there are a couple of preemptive close issues to sort out
>>> (for file operations, sockets are okay).
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The change to socket_md.c looks okay to me but you will need to
>>>>> re-base your patch due to the Mac port in jdk8/tl.
>>>> I'm a new comer and i got known from Charles about the difference
>>>> between jdk8 and jdk8/tl. The latest webrev is based on jdk8/tl.
>>>>
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zhangshj/pthread/webrev.01/
>>> The changes in this webrev look okay to me.
>>
>> In java_md.c
>>
>> 1445       /* See above. Continue in current thread if thr_create() 
>> failed */
>>
>> The "see above" is now a "see below".
>>
>> I think the launcher changes are okay because BSD/OSX won't use this 
>> file.
>>
>> I think the socket changes are okay as long as BSD builds and OSX 
>> builds define _ALLBSD_SOURCE. I still don't fully understand if a BSD 
>> build and an OSX build are distinct.
>>
>> David
>>
>>> -Alan.
>>
> The comment "see above" has been changed to "see below".
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zhangshj/pthread/webrev.02/
>
Hi Alan/David,

There is no response on this thread for long time. I created a sun bug 
7155300, could you help to review it?

The webrev link is http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zhangshj/pthread/webrev.02/

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Regards,

Shi Jun Zhang