Request for review (S): 7022037: Pause when exiting if a debugger is attached on windows

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Staffan,

On 2011-02-24 18:25, Staffan Larsen wrote:
> How about, as others suggested, we enable it only when the hotspot.exe
> launcher! is used? This is the use-case I am interested in, and I don't
> think any tests would be using it.

Sounds OK for me.

-Dmitry




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> Thanks,
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> /Staffan
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> *From:*Daniel D. Daugherty
> *Sent:* den 24 februari 2011 4:11
> *To:* hotspot-runtime-dev at openjdk.java.net
> *Subject:* Re: Request for review (S): 7022037: Pause when exiting if a
> debugger is attached on windows
>
> Trying again since I got a bounce from the Oracle mailer...
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> On 2/24/2011 7:49 AM, Staffan Larsen wrote:
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>     Does the method IsDebuggerPresent() distinguish between Visual
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>     Studio,
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>     windbg, cdbg, adplus and so one?
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> No, I think it works for all of them. See:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680345(VS.85).aspx
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>     Can we automatically turn this future off when debugging remote JVM
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>     or windows service?
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> I'm not sure how to do that, but I added an option to turn it off manually: -XX:-PauseAtExit
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> So for tests where we are intentionally causing a crash in order
> to attach to the crash dump, we will need to add this new option.
> I'm thinking about SA tests here.
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> More likely we will need:
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> -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions -XX:-PauseAtExit
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> in order for the tests to work with VMs that don't have the option.
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> Dan
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>     Can we detect JVM launched by custom launcher (not a java.exe) and
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>     turn this future off in this case (custom launcher could have no console)?
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> Don't know how to do that automatically. I'm actually mostly interested in having it turned on for the hotspot.exe launcher.
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> /Staffan
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Dmitry Samersoff
Java Hotspot development team, SPB04
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