RFR: 8218975: Bug in macOSX kernel's pthread support

[David Holmes]

On 19/03/2019 9:08 am, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> On Mar 18, 2019, at 5:30 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 19/03/2019 2:53 am, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
>>> I forgot to ask the meta question about how we are going to decide when
>>> this freelist work around can be retired so that MacOSX has the same
>>> code as the other platforms?
>>
>> File a bug now: "Reevaluate Mac OS pthread bug workaround" and target to JDK 23. :)
> 
> That’s what I was planning to do, though with target == “tbd”. JDK 23 is only five-ish years away :)

I thought 5 years a good time to re-examine things :) tbd's might get 
overlooked for 10-20 years :)

Cheers,
David