RFR: 8283337: Posix signal handler modification warning triggering incorrectly

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:23:10 GMT, Kevin Walls <kevinw at openjdk.org> wrote:

> PosixSignals::print_signal_handler() is incorrectly detecting a changed signal handler.  The signal handler for SIGBREAK/SIGQUIT is now set in src/hotspot/os/posix/signals_posix.cpp with the bool parameter do_check set to false.
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> set_signal_handler should only store a handler in vm_handlers when do_check is true.
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> However I don't see a simple way of getting a valid warning for the SIGQUIT handler, if it is added later when os::initialize_jdk_signal_support() calls os::signal().
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> If only signals added directly by src/hotspot/os/posix/signals_posix.cpp have the warning for a handler changing, then we never had a warning for SIGQUIT, so just this simple change is needed to remove the bogus warning.

This is reasonable.

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Marked as reviewed by stuefe (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7858