RFR (XS) : 8141641: Runtime: implement range for ErrorLogTimeout

[Christian Thalinger]

> On Nov 10, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Coleen Phillimore <coleen.phillimore at oracle.com> wrote:
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> I think the upper range should be much higher.   This sleep is also something that keeps the jvm alive if you are debugging and have multiple places that crash, and haven't set ShowMessageBoxOnError. Setting this flag to something very high will prevent the debugger from timing out with:
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>          err.print_raw_cr("# [ timer expired, abort... ]");
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> which is really annoying.

It is!  Since we are talking about this, why do we have that?

>   I'd almost suggest MAX_INT as the upper range, but maybe 60*60*60   60 hours would do.
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> Thanks,
> Coleen
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> On 11/10/15 2:34 PM, gerard ziemski wrote:
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>> hi all,
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>> Please review this small fix for JEP-245, which implements range for the last new runtime flag.
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>>    bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141641
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gziemski/8141641_rev0
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>> Thank you.
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