RFR: JDK-8314272: Improve java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: Couldn't get file lock. [v2]

Fri Sep 8 08:06:41 UTC 2023

On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 07:44:21 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

> We could do this mid-term in some follow up action.

It shouldn't be hard to try it. If it works out then it would mean this old crufty code goes away and the JDK is in a better place. If it doesn't work out then the a plan B would be to add to have lockFile0 throw with a useful exception.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15308#issuecomment-1711250512