RFR: 8291569: Consider removing JNI checks for signals SIGPIPE and SIGXFSZ [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:37:01 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Simple enhancement to skip checking of the handlers for SIGPIPE and SIGXFSZ as we really don't care if they change, and we expect that they can.
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>> The signal checking code might seem to have a redundancy as we skip these signals in two places, but the primary use of the `do_check_signal_periodically` array is to allow for only issuing one warning per signal. I could have skipped them in either place and get the same effect but it seemed inappropriate to set the array entry and not do the check; and vice-versa.
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>> Testing: just basic sanity test tiers 1-3. This doesn't affect any application behaviour.
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>> There are no regression tests in this specific area and it did not seem worth the effort creating one just for this.
>> 
>> Thanks.
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> David Holmes has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains two additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8291569-signals
>  - 8291569: Consider removing JNI checks for signals SIGPIPE and SIGXFSZ

The reason the VM handles (and ignores) SIGPIPE is because it can be raised by the OS when a socket connection is terminated. This would crash the VM unless we handle the signal - ref https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-4630104

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12062