RFR: 8250637: UseOSErrorReporting times out (on Mac and Linux)

Gerard Ziemski gziemski at openjdk.java.net
Fri Oct 23 16:27:36 UTC 2020


On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:52:04 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I think "re-arm" is a misnomer. Nothing is re-armed if by "armed" you mean "a signal handler was installed". There was one installed before and there gets a different one installed now.
> 
> I agree that "reset_signal_handlers" is just plain wrong, and has bugged me too. May I suggest "install_secondary_signal_handlers()" ? Or possibly "install_secondary_crash_handlers" which would have the added benefit of removing the term "signal" out of the shared name space, which is confusing on windows.

I like "install_secondary_crash_handlers"

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/813


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