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

[David Holmes]

Hi Rob,

How different is this to the JDK 8 version?

Thanks,
David

On 6/11/2013 7:24 AM, 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.
>>
>>     -Rob
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