(S) RFR: 8141024: [Solaris] Obsolete UseAltSigs

[David Holmes]

Ping!

Thanks,
David

On 13/11/2015 11:31 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141024
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> The JVM claimed SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 for the INTERRUPT and ASYNC signals,
> respectively.
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> -Xusealtsigs, mapping to -XX:+UseAltSigs, was provided to allow users to
> reclaim those signals and instead use two of the real-time signals
> (between SIGRTMIN and SIGRTMAX)
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> As of Solaris 10, Solaris provides SIGJVM1 and SIGJVM2 exclusively for
> the JVMs use. This avoids any conflict with user-defined signal usage.
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> As of Java 6 we documented that on Solaris 10
> -Xusealtsigs/-XX:+UseAltSigs had no affect:
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> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/signals-139944.html#gbzbh
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> As we no longer support Solaris versions older than 10, we do not need
> the UseAltSigs functionality and the flags can be made Obsolete.
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> Thanks,
> David