[8u20] Request for approval for CR 8035897 - Better memory allocation for file descriptors greater than 1024 on macosx

[Alan Bateman]

On 05/03/2014 10:18, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> Hi 8u Maintainers,
>
> I would like to request approval for 8035897, and follow up bug 8036584, for inclusion in 8u20 ( to be pushed to 8u-dev ). The 8u changes are mostly the same as for 9, but some context around the edited lines has changed, so I have included, below, a link to the 8u webrev.
>
> Alan and Michael (original reviewers),
>    Can you please give the 8u webrev a once over. The changes are the same as for 9.
>
> 8u_webrev:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8035897/8u_webrev/webrev/
>
> 8035897: Better memory allocation for file descriptors greater than 1024 on macosx
>    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8035897
>    9 Review thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2014-March/008303.html
>
> 8036584: Review comments from 8035897
>    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8036584
>    9 Review thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2014-March/008305.html
>
This looks okay to me and the webrev looks the same as what is in 9 (it 
is initially confusing as 8036584 un-does much of 8035897).

-Alan.