RFR: 8000975: (process) Merge UNIXProcess.java.bsd & UNIXProcess.java.linux (& .solaris & .aix)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Apr 2 07:36:55 UTC 2014


On 01/04/2014 23:40, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> So I rather like having different LaunchMechanisms available on different
> platforms - just the default would be different.  fork should work
> everywhere.
>
I agree that is important to keep the ability to configure this, it was 
particularly useful with the transition from fork1 to posix_spawn on OS 
X and Solaris where it needed time to be completely confident that there 
aren't side effects or subtle behavior differences.

-Alan.



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