[7u40] Request for phase 2 approval for CR 8006941 - [macosx] Deadlock in drag and drop

[Seán Coffey]

Approved for 7u40-dev.

regards,
Sean.

On 09/07/2013 07:06, Petr Pchelko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this is a request to push the fix for 8006941 into the jdk7u40 repository.
>
> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8006941
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pchelko/8006941/webrev.06/
> Review thread:  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2013-March/004394.html
> Reviewers: Sergey Bylokhov, Anthony Petrov
> JDK8 Changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/awt/jdk/rev/2c36899500a0
>
> Rationale:
> The use of SwingUtilities is removed from the Appkit thread to avoid the deadlock over AWTTreeLock. The fix should be back ported because the probability of this to happen increased with the jdk7u changes.
>
> With best regards. Petr.