Review Request for bug# 8006395

[Edvard Wendelin]

Approved.

On Feb 6, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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