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

[Brent Christian]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 08:03:51 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb 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.

I would also like to see what a FileChannel implementation looks like.
Am I right that this would allow the `prefs` native library to be removed entirely?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15308#issuecomment-1712087144