RFR (s): 4354680: Runtime.runFinalization() silently clears interrupted flag in the calling thread

[Stanimir Simeonoff]

> Aside, I noticed in this code:
>
>  146         forkSecondaryFinalizer(new Runnable() {
>  147             private volatile boolean running;
>  148             public void run() {
>  149                 if (running)
>  150                     return;
>  151                 final JavaLangAccess jla = SharedSecrets.
> getJavaLangAccess();
>  152                 running = true;
>
> that as we create a new Runnable on every call, the "running" field serves
> absolutely no purpose.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
It could be defense vs Thread.currentThread().run() in finalizer that would
cause calling run() of Thread.target. I am not sure if that would cause
invocation, though.

But I have done similar "non-senses"...

Stanimir