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

[Edvard Wendelin]

Approved.

Cheers,
Edvard

On 17 okt 2011, at 15.37, Seán Coffey wrote:

> 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.