RFR: JDK-6546236 Thread interrupt() of Thread.sleep() can be lost on Solaris due to race with signal handler

[Alan Bateman]

On 11/02/2014 08:59, Frederic Parain wrote:
> Alan,
>
> Thank you for the clarification.
> There's still a bit of clean up required on the JDK
> side. Three tests have hard coded usage of the
> UseVMInterruptibleIO flag:
>
> jdk/test/java/nio/file/Files/InterruptCopy.java
> jdk/test/java/util/concurrent/ThreadPoolExecutor/ThrowingTasks.java
> jdk/test/java/util/concurrent/BlockingQueue/Interrupt.java
>
> Even if those tests force the flag to false, they
> will fail with "Unrecognized VM option" as soon as
> the UseVMInterruptibleIO goes away.
>
I removed -XX:-UseVMInterruptibleIO from a number of jdk tests in JDK 8 
and I think these are the only 3 remaining. I can get these sorted out 
in jdk9/dev now if it would help.

-Alan.