Suggested fix for JDK-4724038 (Add unmap method to MappedByteBuffer)

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue Sep 8 18:37:34 UTC 2015


On 09/08/2015 06:54 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> I think the only questionable platform at this point is Windows (to me 
> at least, given that I do not have much experience on it).

That's right, and it's Windows which has the worst problem: on UNIX
you can delete a file which is mapped, on Windows AFAIK you can't.  I
think that MR is referring to Windows when he talks about race
conditions.

Andrew.



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