Review Request for bug# 8006395

[Chris Hegarty]

The changes look good to me.

-Chris.

On 06/02/2013 11:21, mala bankal wrote:
> HI,
>
> Request reviews for backport of bug# 8006395 to jdk7u :
> 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