Request approval to integrate 8006395 to 7u60

[Seán Coffey]

Approved for jdk7u-dev.

regards,
Sean.

On 05/12/2013 04:48, mala bankal wrote:
> HI,
>
> These changes have been reviewed earlier.
> Requesting approval to integrate to 7u60.
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbankal/8006395/webrev.00/
>
> Brief Description :
> Race in the socket asynchronous close mechanism on Linux which can lead
> to blocking socket operations
> issue is with closefd which first sends wakeup signal to all the threads
> blocked on the fd , then closes/dup2 the fd.
> But since signal may arrive in between these , the thread not blocked
> needs to see that fd is closed on entry, else it will be woken up by the
> signal.
>
>
> JDK8 changeset is here :
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/17b643956999
>
> rgds
> mala