RFR: 8143558 evaluate if thr_sigsetmask can be removed from hotspot (solaris) codebase

[David Holmes]

Hi Sebastien,

Sorry for the delay on this. I will take this and test it etc.

Thanks,
David

On 23/12/2015 11:29 PM, Sebastian Sickelmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as a side-effect of https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8136978 i
> created
> a Enhancement in JBS
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8143558
>
> As David commented in JBS it is possible to replace the usage of
> thr_sigsetmask with pthread-sigmask.
>
> Maybe the change is not worth anything on its own. I hope that we can
> find more duplicated code that can be removed easier.
>
> I have create patch that replaces all calls to thr_sigsetmask:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sebastian/8143558/webrev.02/
>
> Unfortunately (Lacking a solaris environment) I am not able to compile
> check / jtreg-test this change.
>
> --
> Sebastian
>