RFR: JDK-8255734: VM should ignore SIGXFSZ on ppc64, s390 too

[Lutz Schmidt]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 08:46:03 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> may I have reviews please for this small fix.
> 
> We willfully ignore SIGPIPE and SIGXFSZ, since their default action is to terminate the VM. However, SIGXFSZ handling was missing for linux ppc64, s390 and AIX. 
> 
> Note that this is a minimal patch, with the explicit aim of making backporting simple. This whole coding will change a lot with JDK-8255711, so I did refrain from changing much more code.
> 
> Thanks, Thomas

Change looks good. 
It really is pointless to handle this signal in the VM. What should we do?

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Marked as reviewed by lucy (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/996