6348631 - request for review

[Alan Bateman]

Volker Simonis wrote:
> Sound good!
>
> And what are the concrete plans: do you want to call into the VM and
> use it's implementations?
>
> Perhaps it would be also a good idea to take into account Colleens
> proposal to add an os/posix/ directory on the jdk-side of the world as
> well?
>   
The jdk doesn't use the HPI directly, but rather indirectly by calling 
in via JVM_* functions. We can't remove this, at least not in 7, because 
we have to continue to allow for the possibility that someone runs with 
legacy interruptible I/O enabled. Once 8 gets moving then we can clean 
things up and change the older code to use system calls directly (which 
is already the case in the newer APIs).

As regards the directory organization, then it's src/windows and 
src/solaris for now. I'm not aware of any discussions or plans to change 
this. Periodically there are calls to rename src/solaris or src/unix. As 
the src/solaris is the starting point for most ports then it could 
probably be done a bit better as there are a few places where there is 
code and source files that are specific to Solaris or Linux.

-Alan.