[icedtea-web] RFC: Backport threadgroup fix to 1.1

[Deepak Bhole]

* Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> [2012-01-10 08:01]:
> On 14:29 Mon 09 Jan     , Deepak Bhole wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I would like to backport
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/rev/d57169ddb76a to 1.1 to
> > fix an issue with OpenJDK7:
> > 
> > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-December/016535.html
> > 
> > I have looked over the patch and it looks like it'd be fine to backport.
> > 
> > Okay for 1.1?
> > 
> 
> This seems like quite a significant change.  Can you give a quick explanation as to
> why you think it's safe to backport?
> 

Yay, found another missed thread --

The change looks big and does 2 major things:
1. It removes the need for a custom AppThreadGroup class, which was not
serving much of a purpose anyway

2. It makes it so that all applets with the same ukey (key that
identifies which applets should share certain resources) are part of the
same ThreadGroup. This should have been done to begin with, and it is a
bug that it wasn't.

Cheers,
Deepak

> > Cheers,
> > Deepak
> 
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> Andrew :)
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