Request for phase 2 approval for CR 7101658 : Backout 7082769 changes

Seán Coffey sean.coffey at oracle.com
Mon Oct 17 15:37:41 PDT 2011


Requesting approval for putback to 7u2 phase 2.

bug ID : http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7101658
(bug report not visible yet)

changes for 7082769 fix have led to behavioural changes which can lead 
to native file descriptor exhaustion. Basically - file descriptors are 
not released until all streams referencing them are closed.

For the short term, we should backout the 7082769 changes until a full 
solution which doesn't cause issue in terms of compatibility is found.

I'm hoping to get this change into 7u2.

webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.7101658/

Code review thread is at 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2011-October/007942.html
Code review approved by : Alan Bateman, Rob McKenna.

This won't be going into jdk8 since I intend to get a new fix in there 
which we can bake before porting back to older JDKs.

Regards,
Sean.



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