RFR: 8003322: Add instrumentation points for tracing of I/O calls

[Staffan Larsen]

A webrev for the changes going into 7u12 is here: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8003322/webrev.jdk7.00/

Thanks,
/Staffan

On 20 nov 2012, at 18:30, Mandy Chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 11/20/12 6:20 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 20/11/2012 14:10, Staffan Larsen wrote:
>>> :
>>> The original plan was for the code in this review to go into both 8 and 7u12. Since 7u12 has a tighter deadline, a possible path would be to include it only in 7u12, but not in 8. For 8 we would then implement a fully dynamic solution. The only thing needed in 8 from this review would be the path field added to the stream classes. Does that sound like a plan?
>>> 
>> I think this is a good plan. I suggest bringing it up on jdk7u-dev so that the jdk7u maintainers can think about the issue (rather that trying to get approval at the last minute when you are reading to push).
> 
> This sounds a good plan to me too.  This would take the pressure off 7u12 deadline while a better solution will be implemented for 8.
> 
> Mandy