RFR [9] 8148117: Move sun.misc.Cleaner to jdk.internal.ref

[Chris Hegarty]

Latest webrev updated in-place:
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8148117/

 * to execute the run method requires an appropriate permission
 * reverted any copyright changes ( leave to a bulk update )
 * updated the test to remove the script

-Chris.


On 26 Jan 2016, at 15:23, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 26/01/2016 13:55, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> It is wonderful to see the various ideas on this thread about the longer
>> term solution to the prompt releasing of direct buffer native memory. I
>> do not want to obstruct that ( it is very informative ), but I’d like to warp up
>> the review on the actual moving of Cleaner. To that end, I’ve update the
>> webrev as per Alan’s comments and suggestion ( to extend Runnable ).
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8148117/
>> 
>> -Chris.
>> 
>> 
> This looks okay. As a defensive-in-depth then Cleaner::run can do a permission check and should ease concerns about leakage.