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

[Seán Coffey]

Approved.

regards,
Sean.

On 05/03/14 03:34, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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.