RFR: 8307990: jspawnhelper must close its writing side of a pipe before reading from it

Wed May 17 15:03:04 UTC 2023

On Wed, 17 May 2023 12:40:58 GMT, Volker Simonis <simonis at openjdk.org> wrote:

> If we do a short read we will work with corrupted `ChildStuff` and `SpawnInfo` structures.

i would agree failing after readFully returns short reads is fine. It won’t stop the method from retrying/completing endlessly in a pathological condition (like the missing close), though).

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13956#issuecomment-1551554490