Request for approval: 6929067: Stack guard pages should be removed when thread is detached

[Andrew Haley]

On 03/04/2010 10:42 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:

> I'm also reviewing this change but I also had the same question about
> iostream.  I don't know the history either.  We have a similar function
> in os_linux.cpp called find_vma() which uses standard C file io.  You
> could rewrite get_stack_bounds() if there's a reason to.

I'll look at ind_vma() and do that.

> The other thing, || *jaxws/jaxws.properties *is checked into a different
> repository (not the hotspot one).

I'm very sorry, that change to jaxws.properties should not have been
included in the webrev.  kenai.com fell off the Net yesterday and I 
couldn't build without this change.

> Also, I believe you need to add comments from the discussion in the
> emails in the new os_linux.cpp functions, because I for one will lose
> the email connection but it would be useful to preserve the reason for
> this change.
> 
> Lastly, Andrew, do you need a sun employee to check this in?  I will do
> this once we resolve the issues above.

I have push access.

Andrew.