RFR: 8077846: improve locking strategy for readConfiguration(), reset(), and initializeGlobalHandlers()

[Alan Bateman]

On 27/04/2015 02:21, David Holmes wrote:
>
> How early in VM startup can logging be initialized and used? I just 
> wonder whether the use of ReentrantLock changes that at all?
>
It can't be used early in the startup. So assume VM.isBooted and 
potentially several threads trying to initialize it around the same 
time. I wouldn't expect the configuration to change too often but there 
may be scenarios where this happens.

-Alan