RFR: 8288984: Simplification in Shutdown.exit

[Chris Hegarty]

On Sat, 2 Jul 2022 13:23:27 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Sorry, I did not think this issue was intended to change the specification in any way, but I see now that it actually does - whether that was the intent or not.

While, maybe, not strictly envisioned by the JIRA issue, the specification clarification is IMO a good addition. We should update the synopsis to make it clear that the simplification is to j.l.Runtime::exit.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9351