RFR 9: 8086278 : java/lang/ProcessHandle/TreeTest.java failed - ProcessReaper StackOverflowException

Wed Apr 13 16:02:30 UTC 2016

On 13/04/16 16:42, Roger Riggs wrote:
> Please review an increase in the default stack size of the Process
> reaper thread to 48K from 32k.
> Some tests with various VM arguments are failing intermittently.
> The failures are not reproducible.
>
> Webrev:
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-reaper-stack-8086278/

Seems reasonable.

While you are there, is there any reason why the reaper cannot
use the overloaded Thread constructor to suppress inheriting
inheritable-thread-local initial values?

-Chris.

> Issue:
>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8086278
>
> Thanks, Roger
>