RFR: 8253429: Error reporting should report correct state of terminated/aborted threads

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:07:34 GMT, Zhengyu Gu <zgu at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi Thomas and David,
> 
> I did notice the dead code (no one sets osthread's state to ZOMBIE before this patch) and plan to file a separate CR.
> 
> I don't quite understand the race condition you described above.
> 
> My understanding is that, os::create_thread() starts native thread, but it blocks until os::start_thread() to unblock
> it. Therefore, there is no chance for os::create_thread() to see ZOMBIE state.
> What do I miss?
> 

Nothing, I just missed the double handshake. Sorry for the noise.

> Thanks.

Okay, the fix looks fine to me then.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/341