RFR: 8261768: SelfDestructTimer should accept seconds

[Gerard Ziemski]

On Tue, 24 May 2022 04:30:33 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I'm on the fence as to whether this needs a CSR request. It does change a product flag but not in a way that any current uses of the flag would notice - I'm assuming that setting to 0 rather than 0.0 still turns it off?

In JDK-8261768 I listed 3 different ways of implementing this. In the end I decided to go with this way, primarily because I was hoping that CSR would not be needed if I do it like this.

The semantics did not change, i.e. XX:SelfDestructTimer=0.0 means the same as XX:SelfDestructTimer=0, whose behavior remains unchanged.

This enhancement, however, would probably benefit from a release note blurb.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8849