RFR(s): 8023541 Race condition in rmid initialization

[Tristan Yan]

Hi Stuart
Should variable initialized be volatile here? Otherwise looks good.
Thank you
Tristan

On Jan 29, 2014, at 2:51 PM, Stuart Marks <stuart.marks at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Please review this fix to a race condition in rmid initialization. Briefly, rmid subclasses the RMI registry implementation and provides special handling for its own stub. Unfortunately the registry is exported in the super() call, making remote calls possible before rmid's stub initialization is complete. The fix is to ensure that all remote calls wait for initialization before proceeding.
> 
> Bug:
> 
>    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8023541
> 
> Webrev:
> 
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/8023541/webrev.0/
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> s'marks