Withdrawn: 8357089: Remove VFORK launch mechanism from Process implementation (linux)
duke
duke at openjdk.org
Mon Aug 11 20:03:17 UTC 2025
On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 04:11:15 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:
> (for JDK 26)
>
> Note: This PR is a continuation of the old PR here: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/25260; had to close the old one since I had Skara problems after the JDK25 split-off.
>
> See the companion CSR (https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8357090) for the ratio behind this removal.
>
> Patch
>
> - removes all code handling the VFORK mode.
> - removes or clarifies comments explaining use of vfork by the JVM.
> - we now print out an error message to stderr if the user still specifies -Djdk.lang.Process.launchMechanism=vfork.
This pull request has been closed without being integrated.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25768
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