RFR: JDK-8314272: Improve java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: Couldn't get file lock.

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:46:28 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi Alan, should this be done similar to what is done here , using strerror + strdup and throwing an exception with the generated error message ? https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/jdk.attach/linux/native/libattach/VirtualMachineImpl.c#L105 Does not look very nice to me, but would probably work.

I suspect the Unix implementation of prefs can easily be replaced with code that uses FileChannel. I think it would be good to try this and would allow the old native code to be removed.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15308#issuecomment-1689907432