[8u-dev] RFA: JDK-8000975 - (process) Merge UNIXProcess.java.bsd & UNIXProcess.java.linux

[Peter Levart]

Hi,

I would like to backport the fix for:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8000975

Which seems to also fix the following issue:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8047340

The discussion thread starts here:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2014-March/026062.html

The original fix was made for jdk9 and applied to:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/27e0909d3fa0
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/27e0909d3fa0

It does not import cleanly into jdk8u-dev repository because a fix to 
UNIXProcess.java.solaris was applied to jdk8u-dev lately:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/9189a6d49ac0

...which was not applied to jdk9-dev. Since the presented patch 
supersedes this fix (a fix for Solaris variant to use a thread pool to 
manage process reaper tasks), nothing is lost.

Here's a webrev of the proposed backported fix:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk8u-dev/UNIXProcess/webrev.01/

You can compare it to the webrev of original jdk9-dev fix:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk9-dev/UNIXProcess/webrev.10/


Regards, Peter