[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8311645: Memory leak in jspawnhelper spawnChild after JDK-8307990 [v3]

Wed Dec 6 18:43:39 UTC 2023

On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 18:27:57 GMT, Volker Simonis <simonis at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is a clean backport of [JDK-8311645: Memory leak in jspawnhelper spawnChild after JDK-8307990](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8311645) which is a follow-up fix for [JDK-8307990: jspawnhelper must close its writing side of a pipe before reading from it](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8307990) which is currently [under review](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk17u-dev/pull/2013).
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>> This backport depends on [pr/2013](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk17u-dev/pull/2013) and will be pushed once that one has been reviewed and approved.
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> Volker Simonis 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 three additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge master
>  - Backport 401c3dea5d8823bc9c0f40506ddad46e983ebf68
>  - Backport 39f6d807dbbe0c9ecd72fe2f76bfbc3091b43c80

Also updated the [How to contribute or backport a fix](https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/JDKUpdates/How+to+contribute+or+backport+a+fix) Wiki with the peculiarities of the `/backport` command.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/2017#issuecomment-1843478357