[7u4] Request for approval for CR 7104625 - sun.awt.X11.XEvent is creating 600 MB of char[] for no good reason

[Omair Majid]

Hi,

I would like to backport the fix for 7104625 to 7u4.

The bug is available at:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7104625

The thread for the patch review is available at:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2011-October/001952.html

The fix is currently in openjdk8:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/7636a62aba7e

The exact same fix applies to jdk7u4 - an hg export from jdk8/jdk 
imports into jdk7u-dev/jdk without any changes.

Any thoughts or comments?

Btw, http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/builds/ shows the 7u2 release 
schedule. Is there something similar for 7u4? I would like to get a 
rough idea of when this fix might be available in a release.

Thanks,
Omair