RFR: 5049299 - (process) Use,posix_spawn, not fork, on S10 to avoid swap,exhaustion (jdk7u-dev)

[Rob McKenna]

Apologies, I forgot to mention the dependency on:

8008118: (process) Possible null pointer dereference in 
jdk/src/solaris/native/java/lang/UNIXProcess_md.c
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/0111bab8dc35

     -Rob

On 05/11/13 21:24, Rob McKenna wrote:
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~robm/5049299/7/webrev.01/
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>     -Rob
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> On 05/11/13 21:23, Rob McKenna wrote:
>> Hi folks,
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>> I'd like to backport this change to JDK7. Note: this fix uses 
>> posix_spawn by default on Mac OSX only. On Solaris fork will remain 
>> the default behaviour.
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>> I've just noticed that there is a problem with the testcase on 
>> Solaris in that it will test fork twice. (and won't test posix_spawn) 
>> I'll figure out a way around this, but in the mean time I'd like to 
>> get the ball rolling on this review anyway.
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>>     -Rob
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