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

Wed Aug 23 13:05:22 UTC 2023

On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:51:30 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>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.

This might be the case, but it is a separate issue.  This issue is about  improving the BackingStoreException .
Normally I would not even touch the prefs C code, but converting the errno int  into something more 'nice'  has to be done somewhere.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15308#issuecomment-1689924983