Review Request: JDK-8001334 - Remove use of JVM_* functions from java.io code

[Dan Xu]

On 03/12/2013 08:19 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 11/03/2013 23:43, Dan Xu wrote:
>> Thanks for all your comments. I have updated the fix accordingly. 
>> Please see the webrev at 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dxu/8001334/webrev.02/.
>>
>> For the language concern in getLastErrorString(char *buf, size_t len) 
>> function, I will log another bug and address it later. Thanks!
>>
>> -Dan
> You've addressed all my comments but I think I may have confused you 
> on one point when I mentioned O_APPEND. You've changed handleAppend to 
> use fcntl(F_GETFL) and check if the flag is set but this will happen 
> on every write in append mode and we don't want that. I think you can 
> simply change IO_Append to be handleWrite or else have handleAppend 
> call handleWrite. The jboolean flag isn't needed for the *nix case.
>
> -Alan.
Hi Alan,

Do you mean directly map IO_Append to handleWrite in io_util_md.h for 
the *nix case? And then where do we check the O_APPEND flag in our code? 
Or do we require users to open the file with O_APPEND flag? Thanks!

-Dan