[rfc][icedtea-web] Fix PR854: Resizing an applet several times causes 100% CPU load

[Jiri Vanek]

On 05/14/2013 10:49 PM, Adam Domurad wrote:
> Nasty bug with a simple fix. This has been reported since icedtea-web 1.1
>
> See http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=854. The reproducer is very easy to set
> up. Placing a print statement reveals that after two resize's, all of icedtea-web's worker threads
> are busy.
>
> The waiting before was too fragile it seems. The version in the patch shouldn't dead-lock in any
> code-path. Everything works as expected with this patch (there really is no possible harm, too).
>
> This should go into any branches that will be released again, IMHO. From the bug comments it seems
> this is quite a visible issue.
>
> Thanks,
> -Adam

This is nice! Please accompany this with automated reproducer and go on.

ok for head and 1.4

J.